In conventional identity politics subjective differences are
understood negatively, as gaps to be overcome, as lacks of
sameness, as evidence of failed or incomplete unity. In Alterity
Politics Jeffrey T. Nealon argues instead for a concrete and
ethical understanding of community, one that requires response,
action, and performance instead of passive resentment and
unproductive mourning for a whole that cannot be attained.While
discussing the work of others who have refused to thematize
difference in terms of the possibility or impossibility of
sameness-Levinas, Butler, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari,
Zizek, Jameson, Heidegger, Bakhtin-Nealon argues that ethics is
constituted as inexorable affirmative response to different
identities, not through an inability to understand or totalize the
other. Alterity Politics combines this theoretical itinerary with
crucial discussions of specific and diverse sites of literary and
cultural production-the work of William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka,
Andy Warhol, Ishmael Reed, Rush Limbaugh, and Vincent Van
Gogh-along with analyses of the social formation of subjects as
found in identity politics, and in multicultural and whiteness
studies. In the process, Nealon takes on a wide variety of issues
including white male anger, the ethical questions raised by drug
addiction, the nature of literary meaning, and the concept of
"becoming-black." In seeking to build an ethical structure around
poststructuralist discourse and to revitalize the applied use of
theoretical concepts to notions of performative identity, Alterity
Politics marks a decisive intervention in literary theory, cultural
studies, twentieth-century philosophy, and performance studies.
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