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Paperback The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages Book

ISBN: 080474453X

ISBN13: 9780804744539

The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages

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What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moli re's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century philosopher, she explores the relation between speech and the erotic, using a literary text as the ground...

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