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

by Shoshana Felman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080474453X
• ISBN13: 9780804744539
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"