Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the New Edition ix
4. Foreword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body xi
5. The Scandal of the Speaking Body
6. Preface: The Promising Animal 1
7. 1. Between Linguistics and Philosophy of Langauge: Theories of Promise, Promises of Theory 6
8. 2. The Perversion of Promising: Don Juan and Literary Performance 12
9. 3. The Scandal of the Performative 41
10. 4. Knowledge and Pleasure, or the Philosopher’s Performance (Psychoanalysis and the Performative) 48
11. Afterword 113
12. Notes 125
13. Index 138
14. Crossing Aesthetics 151