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This title in other editionsThe Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)by Shoshana Felman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Molières Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century philosopher, she explores the relation between speech and the erotic, using a literary text as the ground for a telling encounter between philosophy, linguistics, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. In the years since the publication of this book (which the author today calls “the boldest, the most provocative, but also the most playful” she has written), speech act theory has continued to play a central and defining role in the theories of sexuality, gender, performance studies, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies. This book remains topical as readers increasingly discover how multiply relevant the speaking body is. Moving beyond the domain of formal linguistic analysis to address these questions, the author has written a daring and seductive book. Book News Annotation:A new preface, foreword, and afterward are here added to The
Literary Speech Act (Cornell U. Press, 1983), translated from duction
en deux langues/> (Editions du Seuil, 1980). Felman (French and
comparative literature, Yale U.) meditates on the seductive promise
of speech and love.
Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Imagining an encounter between Moliëre's Don Juan and Austin, this bold yet subtle meditation contemplates the seductive promises of speech and of love, in a telling exchange among philosophy, linguistics, literature, and Lacanian theory. Synopsis:“The Scandal of the Speaking Body—one of the most brilliant and daring and disturbing works of its period, which appeared in English translation in 1984 [under the title The Literary Speech Act] . . . has never found the full radius of readers it assumes and deserves.” —From the Forewordby Stanley Cavell Synopsis:Shoshana Felman is the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her books include Literature and Psychoanalysis, Writing and Madness (in a new edition from Stanford University Press), Testimony, and (most recently) The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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