Kenneth A. Loparo & A. Lagaay 
Encounters in Performance Philosophy 

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.

Table of Content

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

About the author

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