Encounters in Performance Philosophy

PART I: BEGINNINGS Preface; Laura Cull and Alice Lagaay PART II: WHAT IS PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY? 1. Performance Philosophy - Staging a New Field; Laura Cull 2. Performing the Impossible - in Philosophy; Alice Lagaay in conversation with Alice Koubova PART III: ON THE STAGE 3. The Problem of the Ground: Martin Heidegger and Site-Specific Performance; Martin Puchner 4. The Face and the Profile; Denis Guenoun PART IV: ON THE ACTOR 5. On 'Bodies of Knowledge': Conceptualizing the Art of Acting; Freddie Rokem 6. The Most Mimetic Animal: An Attempt to Deconstruct the Actor's Body; Esa Kirkkopelto PART V: ON THE BODY IN/OF PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY 7. The Theatre of the Virtual. How to Stage Potentialities with Merleau-Ponty; Emmanuel Alloa 8. Staging Philosophy: Toward a Performance of Immanent Expression; Arno Bohler 9. The Gymnastics of Thought: Elsa Gindler's Networks of Knowledge; Katja Rothe PART VI: ON PERFORMATIVITY AND LANGUAGE 10. Connecting Performance and Performativity. Does it work?; Sybille Kramer 11. Downscaling Lamentation: On Trope and Fratricide; Nimrod reitman PART VII: ON TRAGEDY 12. Thinking About Philosophy and Drama Today: Three Proposals; Paul A. Kottman 13. After Tragedy; Jean-Luc Nancy PART VIII: ENDINGS 14. The Last Human Venue - Closing Time; Alan Read