The Reign of Anti-logos: Performance in Postmodernity 9783030559397, 9783030559403
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Usury, Sodomy and Idolatry
1.1 Three in One, One in Three
1.2 The Ethics of Hyper-reality
1.3 The Politics of Anti-logos
2 Performativity in Postmodernity
2.1 Exchange Value and the Queer
2.2 The Decline of Reference
2.3 The Death of the Soul I: The Materialist Subject
2.4 The Death of the Soul II: Sadian Society
3 The Commodification of Rhetoric in Classical Athens
3.1 Solon Meets Thespis
3.2 Money Personified: Aristophanes’ Plutus
3.3 Usury and Sophistry in Aristophanes’ Clouds
3.4 Philosophy Contra Sophistry
3.5 Blaming Helen
4 Witchcraft and Representation in Early Modern England
4.1 The Logocentric Conception of Magic
4.2 The Criminalization of Magic
4.3 Reproduction and Inflation
4.4 Concupiscence on Stage
5 Commodification and the Performative Sign in Eucharistic Ethics
5.1 Logos in the Sacrament
5.2 Martin Luther: Against the Commodification of Ritual
5.3 John Calvin and the Radical Reformation
6 The Two Usuries: Performative Representation in the City Comedies
6.1 Usury and Lust
6.2 Society of Shows
6.3 The Broking Knight of Troy
6.4 From Cuckold to Wittol
7 Modernism, Inflation, and the Gold Standard
7.1 Modernism and Representation
7.2 Ezra Pound: Usura contra naturam
7.3 T. S. Eliot: The Gold Standard as Objective Correlative
7.4 Ernest Hemingway, Harold Loeb, and Anti-Semitism
8 Against Financial Derivatives: Toward an Ethics of Representation
8.1 What’s the Problem?
8.2 The Money of Money
8.3 Money as Representation
8.4 Don Quixote and Derivatives
8.5 Toward an Ethics of Representation
9 The Future-Sign: Representation in the Anglophone Yoruba Novel
9.1 Afro-Postmodernism
9.2 Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard
9.3 Slave Wars: Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
9.4 Reading in the Work of Ben Okri
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Usury, Sodomy and Idolatry
1.1 Three in One, One in Three
1.2 The Ethics of Hyper-reality
1.3 The Politics of Anti-logos
2 Performativity in Postmodernity
2.1 Exchange Value and the Queer
2.2 The Decline of Reference
2.3 The Death of the Soul I: The Materialist Subject
2.4 The Death of the Soul II: Sadian Society
3 The Commodification of Rhetoric in Classical Athens
3.1 Solon Meets Thespis
3.2 Money Personified: Aristophanes’ Plutus
3.3 Usury and Sophistry in Aristophanes’ Clouds
3.4 Philosophy Contra Sophistry
3.5 Blaming Helen
4 Witchcraft and Representation in Early Modern England
4.1 The Logocentric Conception of Magic
4.2 The Criminalization of Magic
4.3 Reproduction and Inflation
4.4 Concupiscence on Stage
5 Commodification and the Performative Sign in Eucharistic Ethics
5.1 Logos in the Sacrament
5.2 Martin Luther: Against the Commodification of Ritual
5.3 John Calvin and the Radical Reformation
6 The Two Usuries: Performative Representation in the City Comedies
6.1 Usury and Lust
6.2 Society of Shows
6.3 The Broking Knight of Troy
6.4 From Cuckold to Wittol
7 Modernism, Inflation, and the Gold Standard
7.1 Modernism and Representation
7.2 Ezra Pound: Usura contra naturam
7.3 T. S. Eliot: The Gold Standard as Objective Correlative
7.4 Ernest Hemingway, Harold Loeb, and Anti-Semitism
8 Against Financial Derivatives: Toward an Ethics of Representation
8.1 What’s the Problem?
8.2 The Money of Money
8.3 Money as Representation
8.4 Don Quixote and Derivatives
8.5 Toward an Ethics of Representation
9 The Future-Sign: Representation in the Anglophone Yoruba Novel
9.1 Afro-Postmodernism
9.2 Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard
9.3 Slave Wars: Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
9.4 Reading in the Work of Ben Okri
Index
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