The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages - Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics - Shoshana Felman - Books - Stanford University Press - 9780804744522 - December 19, 2002
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The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages - Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics 1 New edition

Shoshana Felman

The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages - Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics 1 New edition

Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and Austin, this bold yet subtle meditation contemplates the seductive promises of speech and of love, in a telling exchange among philosophy, linguistics, literature, and Lacanian theory.


176 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 19, 2002
ISBN13 9780804744522
Publishers Stanford University Press
Pages 176
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 19 mm   ·   327 g
Translator Cavell, Stanley

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