Sophistical Practice by Barbara Cassin

Author:Barbara Cassin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fordham University Press

Part IV Performance and Performative

TEN

How to Really Do Things with Words: Performance Before the Performative

[W]hat may fairly be called a modern Rhetoric, another systematic study of ways of effecting or affecting action by or in speech, J. L. Austin’s How to Do Things with Words, a set of lecture notes (as Aristotle’s texts are), edited and published posthumously.

—STANLEY CAVELL, “Performative and Passionate Utterances”1

It does not seem to prevent the drawing of a line for our present purposes where we want one.

—J. L. AUSTIN, How to Do Things with Words2

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