Stoicism and Performance

A Joyful Materialism
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40953-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

Power’s Stoicism and Performance presents Stoicism as a means of navigating key debates and concepts in contemporary theatre and performance. Stoicism has influenced many of the most cited radical thinkers in the discipline of theatre and performance studies; for instance Deleuze, Foucault, Kristeva, Agamben. A central aim of this work is to bring Stoicism more explicitly into the fold of the discipline, and to use Stoicism to think differently about performance. With a series of chapters covering themes such as performativity, embodiment, emotion, affect and spectatorship, this book finds points of encounter between Stoicism and contemporary understandings and practices of performance. It presents these encounters as modes of transformative experience in relation to our being in the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Power, Cormac

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1Philosophy

1The Crystal Theatre

2Theatre and Estrangement

2Emotion

1The Problematic Nature of Emotions

2Working with Emotion as Stoic/Actor

3Action

1Action as Problematic Concept

2Action in the Theatre

3Action in Stoicism

4Action for Actors and Stoics

4Body

1Mind-Body Dualism

2Bodies and Limits

3Stoicism and the Neutral Body

4Contact Improvisation Dance: A Stoic Reading

5Performativity

1Napoleon and Performativity

2A Contemporary Model of Performativity

3A Stoic Version of Performativity

6Joy

1Joy as Affective Experience of Stoic Mode of Subjectivity

2Theories of Affect in Theatre

3Theatre and Stoic Joy

7Miscellany

1Mindfulness and the Present Moment

2Athletics and Stoic Performance

3Kristeva, Fantasy and Stoic Improvisation

4Acting with Reservation

5Agamben and the Persona

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cormac Power, Ph.D. (Glasgow University, 2006) is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He is author of Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories Presence in the Theatre (Rodopi, 2008).