The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: December 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780804744522
Subjects: Aesthetics; Philosophy of language; Speech acts (Linguistics); Performative (Philosophy); General; Social Science; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Sociology; Sociolinguistics; Semiotics & Theory; Austin, J. L; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Moliere; Don Juan (Legendary character) in literature; 1622-1673; Dom Juan; Moliere,
First sentence: The English philosopher J. L. Austin, who initiated speech-act research and introduced the term "performative," began by demystifying-in a thoroughly Nietzschean manner, moreover-the illusion upheld by the history of philosophy according to which the only thing at stake in language is its "truth" or "falsity."