The Culturalist Ideology in Literary Theory: From a “Critical” Theory of the Performative to a “Topical” Conception of Performativity
Keywords:
literary criticism, speech act theory, performativity, cultural studies, ideology, neoliberalismAbstract
The age-old gap between humanities and sciences is being cynically bridged by the neoliberal subjection of both humanist and scientific theory to expert knowledge, in the humanities mostly to cultural studies, a key source of which is the conception of performativity. The article sketches the process leading from Austin’s proto-theoretical “nomothetic” exclusion of literature from his theory of the performative to Butler’s ideological “idiographic” grounding of her conception of performativity in literature.References
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