Stoicism and Performance: A Joyful Materialism

Power, Cormac (2019) Stoicism and Performance: A Joyful Materialism. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 56 . Brill, Netherlands. ISBN 9789004409545

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409545

Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: Theatre, Stoicism, Performance, Agency, Philosophy, Psychology
Subjects: V500 Philosophy
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Arts
Depositing User: Paul Burns
Date Deposited: 08 Jul 2019 15:41
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2020 10:42
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/39902

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