Reading the Postmodern Polity : Political Theory as Textual Practice.
Offers the first demonstration by a political theorist of how textuality is inherent to political practice.
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1987
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Language and Power: The Spaces of Critical Interpretation; 2. Politicizing Ulysses: Rationalistic, Critical, and Genealogical Commentaries; 3. Weighing Anchor: Postmodern Journeys from the Life-World; 4. Political Economy and Mimetic Desire in Babette's Feast; 5. American Fictions and Political Culture: DeLillo's Libra and Bellah et al.'s Habits of the Heart; 6. Spatiality and Policy Discourse: Reading the Global City; 7. Strategic Discourse/Discursive Strategy: The Representation of "Security Policy" in the Video Age.
- 8. The Politics of Fear: DeLillo's Postmodern Burrow9. Terminations: Elkin's Magic Kingdom and the Politics of Death; Notes; Index.
