The fifteen original essays in "Staging Philosophy "make useful
connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of
theater and performance and use these insights to develop new
theories about theater. Each of the contributors--leading scholars
in the fields of performance and philosophy--breaks new ground,
presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the
way for future scholarship.
"Staging Philosophy "raises issues of critical importance by
providing case studies of various philosophical movements and
schools of thought, including aesthetics, analytic philosophy,
phenomenology, deconstruction, critical realism, and cognitive
science. The essays, which are organized into three
sections--history and method, presence, and reception--take up
fundamental issues such as spectatorship, empathy, ethics, theater
as literature, and the essence of live performance. While some
essays challenge assertions made by critics and historians of
theater and performance, others analyze the assumptions of
manifestos that prescribe how practitioners should go about
creating texts and performances. The first book to bridge the
disciplines of theater and philosophy, "Staging Philosophy" will
provoke, stimulate, engage, and ultimately bring theater to the
foreground of intellectual inquiry while it inspires further
philosophical investigation into theater and performance.
David Krasner is Associate Professor of Theater Studies, African
American Studies, and English at Yale University. His books include
"A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and
Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1920 "and "Renaissance,
Parody, and Double Consciousness in AfricanAmerican Theatre,
1895-1910," He is co-editor of the series Theater:
Theory/Text/Performance.
David Z. Saltz is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Head
of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of
Georgia. He is coeditor of "Theater Journal "and is the principal
investigator of the innovative Virtual Vaudeville project at the
University of Georgia.
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