Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity

by Jeffrey T. Nealon

Book Overview

In 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 Alterity Politics 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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822321459
• ISBN13: 9780822321453
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.2"