TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bogdan,Jolan
TI  - Performative Contradiction and the Romanian Revolution
SN  - 9781783488742
AV  - DR269.5.B643 2017 
U1  - 320.01 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Romania - History - Revolution, 1989
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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