Phenomenology As Performative Exercise.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology Series ; v.19 .
- Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology Series .
Intro -- Phenomenology as Performative Exercise -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: The Performativity of Phenomenology -- 1 Heidegger's Performative Phenomenology: Formalization, Enactment and Performativity -- 2 From Crisis to Psychoanalysis: Suspension as an Act of Resistance against the Reduction of Subjects' Singularities -- 3 Phenomenology and Transformation: Platonic Motifs in Husserlian Phenomenology -- 4 Gadamer Reader of Plato: Performative Exercises in Phenomenological Reading -- 5 Phenomenology as a Transformative Experience: Heidegger and the Grammar of Middle Voice -- Section 2: The Phenomenology of Performativity -- 6 Expression and the Performative: a Reassessment -- 7 Bodily Performativity: Enacting Norms -- 8 Performing Criticism: (Post)Phenomenological Considerations of Contending Bodies -- 9 Performativity: the Constitution and Critique of Meaning -- Section 3: Exercises -- 10 The Weight of History: from Heidegger to Afro-Pessimism -- 11 Performing Phenomenology: the Work of Choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir -- 12 Extended Selves: Phenomenological Remarks on Digital Processes of Subjectification -- Index.
This volume establishes the first systematic connection between phenomenology and performativity. It outlines the performativity of phenomenology as an exercise and a way of life, and complements linguistic accounts of performativity with a phenomenological understanding of embodied experience.