Performative Agency

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See Bourdieu (Citation1991) in particular. 2. Polanyi wrote, ‘No society could, naturally, live for any length of time unless it possessed an economy of some sort; but previously to our time no economy every existed that, even in principle, was controlled by markets’ (1944, p. 43). Principles of redistribution, for instance, were not controlled by markets, which is why, in his view, redistribution tends to enmesh the economic system proper in social relationships. 3. See Austin (1962, pp. 118–120). 4. See Shoshana Felman (2002); and Christopher Bollas (1989) 5. See Hans-Georg Gadamer (1975); and Richard Palmer (1969). 6. The emergence of a subjective form, then, which would be conducive to democratic politics involved, as J. Victor Koshmann (1996) has argued, two stages of development: the first involved a notion of negative freedom, that is, a freedom from external constraints, but the second involved an exercise of freedom that sought not only to realize democratic life, but also to assume responsibility for it.