Performance and Power
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Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society.
Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. Positioning social performance between ritual...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B00APY9K8O
ISBN13:9780745648187
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:Polity Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 9.0" x 6.0"
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