The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (Routledge Companions)

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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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Illustrations Contributors Introduction Part I: Genealogies, Contexts And Traditions 1 Performances of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and in Modernity: Suddenly a Philosopher Enters the Stage 2 Theravadin Buddhist Philosophy and Practice in Relationto Performance 3 Performance Philosophy and Spirituality: the Way of Tasawwuf 4 Whose Tempest? Performance Philosophy and/as Decolonial cacophony 5 The Playwright as Thinker: Modern Drama and Performance Philosophy 6 Performance Philosophy Seen Through Nishida’S ‘Acting Intuition’ 7 Performance in Anglo-American Philosophy 8 Performance Philosophy in Latin America: How to Perform a Utopia 9 Diminishing Returns: on the Performativity of Musical Sound 10 Performance Philosophy and the Philosophy of Mediality 11 The Theatre of Research Part II: Questions and Debates 12 Opening the Circle, Towards a Radical Equality: Performancephilosophy and Animals 13 Performance Philosophy as Inter-Philosophical Dialogue 14 Decolonizing Performance Philosophies 15 Theatre-Thinking: Philosophy From the Stage 16 Philosophy and Theatre: Incestuous Beginnings, Looking Daggers Andother Dangerous Liaisons – a Dialogue 17 Aesthetics of [the] Invisible: Presence in Indian Performance Theory Part III: Methods, Techniques, Genres and Forms 18 Performing Phenomenological Methodology 19 Daring to Transform Academic Routines: Cultures of Knowledge Andtheir Performances 20 Resonance of Two 21 Lying Fallow: Anonymity and Collectivity 22 Play in Performance Philosophy 23 Landscape Performance 24 Re-Telling the Self: the Lived Experience of Modernyoga Practice 25 The Think Tank: Institution as Performance 26 Touch 27 In-Between: a Methodology of Performative Philosophy: Thoughts on Embodiment and the Public (With Helmuth Plessner) Reflecting the Philosophy-Performance-Festival [Soundcheck philosophie] [Sup(1)] 28 Africanist Choreography as Cultural Citizenship: Thomas ‘Talawa’Prestø’S Philosophy of Africana Dance Part IV: Figures 29 Rūmī 30 Adrian Piper 31 Diogenes 32 A Dice Thrower 33 Open Text – Open Performance: Hélène Cixous Andariane Mnouchkine 34 Roger Federer 35 26 Mesostics Re and Not Re John Cage 36 Confucius 37 Rudolf Laban Part V: Performance as Philosophy and Philosophy as Performance 38 Theater as if Theory 39 Dance as Embodied Ethics 40 Philosophy on Stage 41 Pas De Deux: Écriture Féminine Performative 42 Onanism, Handjobs, Smut: Performances of Self-Valorization 43 Explosions of ‘Creative Indifference’. Salomo Friedlaender, Sun Ra,Serendipity and the Idea of a ‘Heliocentre’ 44 In the Making – an Incomplete Consideration of the First Decade of every House Has a Door 2008 to 2018 as Performance Philosophy 45 Blackout: Thinking With Darkness Index