Transcending Postmodernism

Performatism 2.0
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-35956-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of aesthetically mediated transcendence. These effects include specific temporal strategies (“chunking”), stylizing separated subjectivity (the genius and the fool being its two main poles) and orienting ethics toward actions taken by centered agents bearing a sacral charge. The book provides a critical overview of other theories of post-postmodernism, and suggests that among five text-oriented theories there is basic agreement on its techniques and strategies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eshelman, Raoul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents



Foreword

Introduction: Theories of Post-Postmodernism

Chapter One: The Prison-House of Posthistoricism

Chapter Two: A Time for Transcendence

Chapter Three: Performatism and the Ethics of Perpetration

Chapter Four: From Fool to Genius: Separated Subjectivity in Performatism

Chapter Five: Aesthetics, Sexuality and Transcendence

Chapter Six: Performatism and Global Narratives

Chapter Seven: The End of Performatism?

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raoul Eshelman is a Slavist who received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Constance and who worked primarily at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich until his retirement in 2022.