{"product_id":"alterity-politics-ethics-and-performative-subjectivity-9780822321453","title":"Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeffrey T. Nealon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn conventional identity politics subjective differences are understood negatively, as gaps to be overcome, as lacks of sameness, as evidence of failed or incomplete unity. In \u003ci\u003eAlterity Politics\u003c\/i\u003e Jeffrey T. Nealon argues instead for a concrete and ethical understanding of community, one that requires response, action, and performance instead of passive resentment and unproductive mourning for a whole that cannot be attained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile discussing the work of others who have refused to thematize difference in terms of the possibility or impossibility of sameness-Levinas, Butler, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Zizek, Jameson, Heidegger, Bakhtin-Nealon argues that ethics is constituted as inexorable affirmative response to different identities, not through an inability to understand or totalize the other. \u003ci\u003eAlterity Politics\u003c\/i\u003e combines this theoretical itinerary with crucial discussions of specific and diverse sites of literary and cultural production-the work of William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Andy Warhol, Ishmael Reed, Rush Limbaugh, and Vincent Van Gogh-along with analyses of the social formation of subjects as found in identity politics, and in multicultural and whiteness studies. In the process, Nealon takes on a wide variety of issues including white male anger, the ethical questions raised by drug addiction, the nature of literary meaning, and the concept of \"becoming-black.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn seeking to build an ethical structure around poststructuralist discourse and to revitalize the applied use of theoretical concepts to notions of performative identity, \u003ci\u003eAlterity Politics\u003c\/i\u003e marks a decisive intervention in literary theory, cultural studies, twentieth-century philosophy, and performance studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46897101078679,"sku":"9780822321453","price":3359.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822321453.webp?v=1770361122","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/alterity-politics-ethics-and-performative-subjectivity-9780822321453","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}