CÀTEDRA FERRATER MORA DE PENSAMENT CONTEMPORANI

WORDPLAY: THE LANGUAGE AND POLITICS OF PERFORMATIVITY

Professora convidada:

BONNIE HONIG

(Brown University)

També participaran en les sessions el Prof. Marc Stears (University College London) i la Prof. Miriam Leonard (University College London).

Programa:

1. Introduction - Language Martyrs: Does Performativity Mean Acting Together or Faking It Alone?

2. Bullying: Passion and Non-Sovereignty in J.L. Austin’s How to do Things with Words

3. Forgiving: Euripides’ Hippolytus as Noir

4. Re-Marrying: Race, Context, and the Triumph of Experience Over Hope in His Girl Friday

5. Bequeathing: Anagrammatical versus Performative Reading