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Adrian Howe, Review of Judith Butler, Excitable Speech, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique Vol. XI no.31 (1998), 95-104: In this review, a dedicated follower of Judith Butler follows the labyrinthine path of the brilliant North American philosopher's book-length argument against the regulation of hate speech. Along the way the reviewer encounters illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts and renews her acquaintance with non-sovereign power, subversive resignifications and iterable models of the performative. Austin, Nietzsche, Foucault and Derrida are all on hand to keep her on track. At journey's end she is left to ponder the connections and/or gap between Butler's theorisation of linguistic pain and the injurious effects of hate speech on subjugated social groups. e-mail A.Howe@latrobe.edu.au

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