Encounters in Performance Philosophy [electronic resource] /
Cull, Laura.editor.
Lagaay, Alice.editor.
Encounters in Performance Philosophy is a collection of 14 essays by international researchers which demonstrates the vitality of the field of Performance Philosophy. The essays address a wide range of concerns common to performance and philosophy including: the body, language, performativity, mimesis and tragedy.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Beginnings; Introduction; Part II: What Is Performance Philosophy?; 1 Performance Philosophy - Staging a New Field; 2 Performing the Impossible in Philosophy; Part III: On the Stage; 3 The Problem of the Ground: Martin Heidegger and Site-Specific Performance; 4 The Face and the Profile; Part IV: On the Actor; 5 'Bodies of Knowledge': Conceptualizing the Art of Acting; 6 The Most Mimetic Animal: An Attempt to Deconstruct the Actor's Body; Part V: On the Body in/of Performance Philosophy
7 The Theatre of the Virtual: How to Stage Potentialities with Merleau-Ponty8 Staging Philosophy: Toward a Performance of Immanent Expression; 9 The Gymnastics of Thought: Elsa Gindler's Networks of Knowledge; Part VI: On Performativity and Language; 10 Connecting Performance and Performativity: Does It Work?; 11 Downscaling Lamentation: On Trope and Fratricide; Part VII: On Tragedy; 12 Thinking about Philosophy and Drama Today: Three Proposals; 13 After Tragedy; Part VIII: Endings; 14 The Last Human Venue: Closing Time; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Encounters in Performance Philosophy is a collection of 14 essays by international researchers which demonstrates the vitality of the field of Performance Philosophy. The essays address a wide range of concerns common to performance and philosophy including: the body, language, performativity, mimesis and tragedy.
Theater-History.
Philosophy (General).
Performing arts.
Theater.
Arts.
Theatre History.
Philosophy, general.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Arts.