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Performatives After Deconstruction

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy is a major monograph series from Bloomsbury. The series features first-class scholarly research monographs across the field of Continental philosophy. Each work makes a major contribution to the field of philosophical research.

Adornos Concept of Life , Alastiar Morgan

Adornos Poetics of Critique , Steven Helmling

Badiou and Derrida , Antonio Calcagno

Badiou, Marion and St Paul , Adam Miller

Being and Number in Heideggers Thought , Michael Roubach

Crisis in Continental Philosophy , Robert Piercey

Deleuze and Guattari , Fadi Abou-Rihan

Deleuze and Guattaris Philosophy of History , Jay Lampert

Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts , edited by Mary Caputi and Vincent J. Del Casino, Jnr

Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation , Joe Hughes

Derrida , Simon Morgan Wortham

Derrida and Disinterest , Sean Gaston

Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure , Nicole Anderson

Domestication of Derrida , Lorenzo Fabbri

Encountering Derrida , Simon Morgan Wortham

Foucaults Heidegger , Timothy Rayner

Foucaults Legacy , C.G. Prado

Gabriel Marcels Ethics of Hope , Jill Graper Hernandez

Gadamer and the Question of the Divine , Walter Lammi

Gadamers Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics , John Arthos

Gilles Deleuze , Constantin V. Boundas

Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling , Sharin N. Elkholy

Heidegger and Authenticity , Mahon OBrien

Heidegger and Happiness , Matthew King

Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology , Peter S. Dillard

Heidegger and the Place of Ethics , Michael Lewis

Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction , Michael Lewis

Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change , Ruth Irwin

Heideggers Early Philosophy , James Luchte

In the Shadow of Phenomenology , Stephen H. Watson

Irony of Heidegger , Andrew Haas

Jean-Luc Nancy and the Thinking of Otherness , Daniele Rugo

Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics , Edward Willatt

Merleau-Pontys Phenomenology , Kirk M. Besmer

Michel Henry , Jeffrey Hanson

Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon Tradition , Louise Mabille

Nietzsches Ethical Theory , Craig Dove

Nietzsches Thus Spoke Zarathustra , James Luchte

Phenomenology, Institution and History , Stephen H. Watson

Post-Rationalism , Tom Eyers

Ricoeur and Lacan , Karl Simms

Sartres Phenomenology , David Reisman

Simultaneity and Delay , Jay Lampert

Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant , Edward Willatt

Whos Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari?, Gregg Lambert

Zizek and Heidegger , Thomas Brockelman

Performatives After Deconstruction

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Mauro Senatore

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First published 2013

Mauro Senatore and Contributors, 2013

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Contents

Ellen S. Burt is Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine. Her works include Poetrys Appeal: Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space (1999) and Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire and Wilde (2009).

Diane Davis is Professor of Rhetoric & Writing and English at the University of Texas at Austin and Kenneth Burke Professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She is the author of Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter (2000) and Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations (2010); co-author of Womens Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition (2008); and editor of The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (2007) and Reading Ronell (2009).

Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield is Reader in Theory and Philosophy of Art at the University of Reading, and a member of the Academic Board of the Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics. He has published widely in continental philosophy, philosophy of art and aesthetics, and recently has given a number of performative readings of his ideas at leading galleries in Europe and the UK.

Matthias Fritsch studied philosophy in Cologne, New York, Berlin and Philadelphia and joined the faculty of Concordia University in Montral in 2002. His research in social and political philosophy focuses on historical justice, theories of democracy, and the critical theory of society. To date, he has published a monograph ( The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida , 2005), a range of articles in scholarly journals, and translated authors such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Habermas into English.

Alexander Garca Dttmann lives in London and teaches philosophy at Goldsmiths (University of London). He is also Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art. Recent publications include: Erase The Traces (2004), Visconti: Insights Into Flesh And Blood (2006), Derrida and I: The Problem of Deconstruction (2008), Participation: Consciousness of Semblance (2011) and Naive Art: An Essay on Happiness (2012).

Martin Mcquillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London. His recent publications include Deconstruction After 9/11 (2008), Roland Barthes, or, The Profession of Cultural Studies (2010) and Deconstruction without Derrida (2012). He is the editor of The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy (2007), Deconstruction Reading Politics (2008), The Origins of Deconstruction (2010) and The Post-Romatic Predicament (2012). He is also series editor for The Frontiers of Theory list published by Edinburgh University Press.

John Mullarkey is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University, London. He has published Bergson and Philosophy (1999), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (2006), Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality (2010), and co-edited Laruelle and Non-Philosophy (2012) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy (2013). He is currently working on a book entitled Reverse Mutations: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy .

John W. P. Phillips teaches critical theory, literature and continental philosophy in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author, with Ryan Bishop, of Modernist Avant-garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology (2010) and co-edited Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore (2004) and Problematizing Global Knowledge (2006).

Herman Rapaport is Reynolds Professor of English at Wake Forest University and has published books on Derrida and deconstruction, among them, Heidegger and Derrida (1989), The Theory Mess (2001) and Later Derrida (2003). The Literary Theory Toolkit (2011) also includes discussions of Derridas writings as well as a chapter on performance and performativity.