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Performative Contradiction and the Romanian Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783488742
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performative Contradiction and the Romanian RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 320.01
LOC classification:
  • DR269.5.B643 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm for the Romanian Revolution -- Notes -- Chapter One Performative Contradiction: Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Perspectives -- Notes -- Chapter Two The Performance of Authenticity: Philosophers Question the Revolution -- Notes -- Chapter Three The Problem with the "Event": Badiou's Split Loyalties -- Notes -- Chapter Four Nostalgia for the Old Regime: A Freudian Interpretation -- Notes -- Chapter Five Pro-Natal Legislation and the Systematic Destruction of Intimacy -- Notes -- Chapter Six The Interruption of Mourning: On Forbidden Burials -- Notes -- Chapter Seven On Violence: Can the Revolution Be Saved? -- Notes -- Conclusion: Other Examples -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book explores the Romanian Revolution in relation to the ongoing questions around its authenticity. It offers a critical theoretical re-examination of the revolution using the concept of performative contradiction as an analytic tool.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm for the Romanian Revolution -- Notes -- Chapter One Performative Contradiction: Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Perspectives -- Notes -- Chapter Two The Performance of Authenticity: Philosophers Question the Revolution -- Notes -- Chapter Three The Problem with the "Event": Badiou's Split Loyalties -- Notes -- Chapter Four Nostalgia for the Old Regime: A Freudian Interpretation -- Notes -- Chapter Five Pro-Natal Legislation and the Systematic Destruction of Intimacy -- Notes -- Chapter Six The Interruption of Mourning: On Forbidden Burials -- Notes -- Chapter Seven On Violence: Can the Revolution Be Saved? -- Notes -- Conclusion: Other Examples -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores the Romanian Revolution in relation to the ongoing questions around its authenticity. It offers a critical theoretical re-examination of the revolution using the concept of performative contradiction as an analytic tool.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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