ABSTRACT
This chapter is in two juxtaposed parts by two authors, each highlighting, in their own register of language, the arts-based philosophy research project “Philosophy On Stage” (Vienna) from one of two interrelated perspectives. The first section – Doing Aesthetics – by philosopher Arno Böhler explores the fundamental theoretical premises and principles of the notion of arts-based philosophy, emphasizing the performative (in the sense of poeisis) and embodied dimensions of the practice of theory, and offering a glimpse at a genealogy (Plato, Spinoza, Nietzsche, James, Whitehead, Deleuze) of the cross-disciplinary approach to working at the intersection between art and philosophy. The second part – Being in Love with Art & Philosophy. A Fucking–Sublime Dilemma – by actress-philosopher Susanne Valerie evokes a practice of écriture féminine (Cixous) to trace a biographical path leading from the theatre to “Philosophy On Stage” with references to plays by Georg Büchner, Heiner Müller, J. W. Goethe and Heinrich von Kleist (among others) along the way.
