Encounters in Performance Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Beginnings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Laura Cull, Alice Lagaay

      Pages 3-12

3. What Is Performance Philosophy?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Performance Philosophy — Staging a New Field

      • Laura Cull

      Pages 15-38

   3. Performing the Impossible in Philosophy

      • Alice Lagaay, Alice Koubová

      Pages 39-62

4. On the Stage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. The Problem of the Ground: Martin Heidegger and Site-Specific Performance

      • Martin Puchner

      Pages 65-86

   3. The Face and the Profile

      • Denis Guénoun

      Pages 87-101

5. On the Actor

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. ‘Bodies of Knowledge’: Conceptualizing the Art of Acting

      • Freddie Rokem

      Pages 105-120

   3. The Most Mimetic Animal: An Attempt to Deconstruct the Actor’s Body

      • Esa Kirkkopelto

      Pages 121-144

6. On the Body in/of Performance Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. The Theatre of the Virtual: How to Stage Potentialities with Merleau-Ponty

      • Emmanuel Alloa

      Pages 147-170

   3. Staging Philosophy: Toward a Performance of Immanent Expression

      • Arno Böhler

      Pages 171-196

   4. The Gymnastics of Thought: Elsa Gindler’s Networks of Knowledge

      • Katja Rothe

      Pages 197-219

7. On Performativity and Language

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Connecting Performance and Performativity: Does It Work?

      • Sybille Krämer

      Pages 223-237

   3. Downscaling Lamentation: On Trope and Fratricide

      • Nimrod Reitman

      Pages 238-258

8. On Tragedy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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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.

• Performance
• Philosophy
• Performance theory
• drama
• Martin Heidegger
• philosophy
• stage
• theatre
• tragedy

“Encounters in Performance Philosophy covers a wide range of theorists, in a variety of methods and from different disciplinary perspectives. … Encounters in Performance Philosophy is a volume that not only records an already existing body of deeply vital and thoughtful practices. It also paves the way for forms of research able to incorporate process and novelty through an actual nomadism unencumbered by hubristic prescription.” (Nik Wakefield, Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 25 (4), October, 2015)

'The corridors of academia have been invaded by new modalities of conveying meaningful articulation. Performance and registers of performativity now profile the most advanced cuts of philosophical presentation - some feisty, some understated and raw, often delivered with melancholic acuity and controlled dazzle. Alice Lagaay and Laura Cull have assembled a number of breakthrough essays by contributors including noted French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, that engage, by intricate yet compelling means, the dissociation between the cognitive and performative in contemporary thought.' Avital Ronell, New York University, USA

• School of Arts, University of Surrey, UK

  Laura Cull

• Universität Bremen, Germany

  Alice Lagaay

Emmanuel Alloa, University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland. Arno Böhler, University of Vienna, Austria Denis Guénoun, Université Sorbonne-Paris IV Esa Kirkkopelto, University of Arts Helsinki, Finland Paul A. Kottman, New School for Social Research, USA Alice Koubová, Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Sybille Krämer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Jean-Luc Nancy, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Martin Puchner, Harvard University, USA Alan Read, Kings College, University of London, UK Nimrod Reitman, New York University, USA Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel Katja Rothe, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

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