Performance and Power 1s Edition by Jeffrey C Alexander ISBN 0745648177 9780745648170

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ISBN 10: 0745648177

ISBN 13: 9780745648170 

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society.

Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. Positioning social performance between ritual and strategy, he lays out the elements of social performance – from scripts to mise-en-scène, from critical mediation to audience reception – and systematically describes their tense interrelation. This is followed by a series of empirically oriented studies that demonstrate how cultural pragmatics transforms our approach to power.

Alexander brings his new theory of social performance to bear on case studies that range from political to cultural power: Barack Obama’s electoral campaign, American failure in the Iraqi war, the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement, terrorist violence on September 11th, public intellectuals, material icons, and social science itself.

This path-breaking work by one of the world’s leading social theorists will command a wide interdisciplinary readership.

Table of contents:

1. The Cultural Pragmatics of Symbolic Action

2. Social Performance Between Ritual and Strategy

3. Performance and the Challenge of Power

4. Social Political Cultural and Performative

5. Obama v McCain

6. A Presidential Performance Panned or Obama as the Last Enlightenment Man

7. The Civil Rights Movement

8. Performing Terror on September 11

9. Afghanistan and Iraq

10. Intellectuals and Public Performance

11. The Role of the Critic

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