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The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
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ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.
Firstly, the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where, when, how and by whom philosophy is performed. Secondly, it provides a plurality of new accounts of performance and performativity – as the production of ideas, bodies and knowledges – in the arts and beyond. Comprising texts written by international artists, philosophers and scholars from multiple disciplines, the essays engage with questions of how performance thinks and how thought is performed in a wide range of philosophies and performances, from the ancient to the contemporary. Concepts and practices from diverse geographical regions and cultural traditions are analysed to draw conclusions about how performance operates across art, philosophy and everyday life.
The collection both contributes to and critiques the philosophy of music, dance, theatre and performance, exploring the idea of a philosophy from the arts. It is crucial reading material for those interested in the hierarchy of the relationship between philosophy and the arts, advancing debates on philosophical method, and the relation between Performance and Philosophy more broadly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|106 pages
Genealogies, contexts and traditions
chapter 1|13 pages
Performances of philosophy in Ancient Greece and in modernity
chapter 2|8 pages
Theravādin Buddhist philosophy and practice in relation to performance
chapter 3|11 pages
Performance philosophy and spirituality
chapter 4|8 pages
Whose Tempest? Performance philosophy and/as decolonial cacophony
chapter 6|8 pages
Performance philosophy seen through Nishida’s ‘acting intuition’
chapter 8|9 pages
Performance Philosophy in Latin America
chapter 10|8 pages
Performance Philosophy and the philosophy of mediality
part Part II|68 pages
Questions and debates
chapter 12|13 pages
Opening the circle, towards a radical equality
chapter 14|13 pages
Decolonizing performance philosophies
chapter 16|8 pages
Philosophy and theatre
chapter 17|11 pages
Aesthetics of [the] invisible
part Part III|117 pages
Methods, techniques, genres and forms
chapter 19|9 pages
Daring to transform academic routines
chapter 24|10 pages
Re-telling the self
chapter 27|11 pages
In-between: a methodology of Performative Philosophy
chapter 28|11 pages
Africanist choreography as cultural citizenship
part Part IV|51 pages
Figures
chapter 33|5 pages
Open text – open performance
part Part V|84 pages
Performance as Philosophy and Philosophy as Performance