The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages Maryann McKibben Dana if you just know the

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The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages Maryann McKibben Dana if you just know theWhat is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Molire's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth century philosopher, she explores the relation between speech and the erotic, using a literary text as the ground for