The Scandal of the Speaking Body : Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages

Preface to the New Edition ix Shoshana Felman Foreword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body xi Stanley Cavell The Scandal of the Speaking Body Preface: The Promising Animal 3(3) Between Linguistics and Philosophy of Langauge: Theories of Promise, Promises of Theory 6(6) The Perversion of Promising: Don Juan and Literary Performance 12(29) The Scandal of the Performative 41(7) Knowledge and Pleasure, or the Philosopher's Performance (Psychoanalysis and the Performative) 48(65) Afterword 113(12) Judith Butler Notes 125(13) Index 138