Encounters in Performance Philosophy

Part I. Beginnings

1. Introduction
Laura Cull, Alice Lagaay

Part II. What Is Performance Philosophy?

2. Performance Philosophy — Staging a New Field
Laura Cull

3. Performing the Impossible in Philosophy
Alice Lagaay, Alice Koubová

Part III. On the Stage

4. The Problem of the Ground: Martin Heidegger and Site-Specific Performance
Martin Puchner

5. The Face and the Profile
Denis Guénoun

Part IV. On the Actor

6. ‘Bodies of Knowledge’: Conceptualizing the Art of Acting
Freddie Rokem

7. The Most Mimetic Animal: An Attempt to Deconstruct the Actor’s Body
Esa Kirkkopelto

Part V. On the Body in/of Performance Philosophy

8. The Theatre of the Virtual: How to Stage Potentialities with Merleau-Ponty
Emmanuel Alloa

9. Staging Philosophy: Toward a Performance of Immanent Expression
Arno Böhler

10. The Gymnastics of Thought: Elsa Gindler’s Networks of Knowledge
Katja Rothe

Part VI. On Performativity and Language

11. Connecting Performance and Performativity: Does It Work?
Sybille Krämer

12. Downscaling Lamentation: On Trope and Fratricide
Nimrod Reitman

Part VII. On Tragedy

13. Thinking about Philosophy and Drama Today: Three Proposals
Paul A. Kottman

14. After Tragedy
Jean-Luc Nancy

Part VIII. Endings

15. The Last Human Venue: Closing Time
Alan Read

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Philosophy, general, Performing Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Arts