Encounters in Performance Philosophy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Performance Philosophy — Staging a New Field....Pages 15-38
Performing the Impossible in Philosophy....Pages 39-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The Problem of the Ground: Martin Heidegger and Site-Specific Performance....Pages 65-86
The Face and the Profile....Pages 87-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
‘Bodies of Knowledge’: Conceptualizing the Art of Acting....Pages 105-120
The Most Mimetic Animal: An Attempt to Deconstruct the Actor’s Body....Pages 121-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Theatre of the Virtual: How to Stage Potentialities with Merleau-Ponty....Pages 147-170
Staging Philosophy: Toward a Performance of Immanent Expression....Pages 171-196
The Gymnastics of Thought: Elsa Gindler’s Networks of Knowledge....Pages 197-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Connecting Performance and Performativity: Does It Work?....Pages 223-237
Downscaling Lamentation: On Trope and Fratricide....Pages 238-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Thinking about Philosophy and Drama Today: Three Proposals....Pages 261-277
After Tragedy....Pages 278-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
The Last Human Venue: Closing Time....Pages 293-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-321