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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Lucilla Guidi and Thomas Rentsch, establishes the first systematic connection between phenomenology and performativity. On the one hand, it outlines the performativity of phenomenology by exploring its enactment and the transformation of attitude it effects; this exploration is conducted through a number of parallels between phenomenology and the ancient understanding of philosophy as an exercise and a way of life. On the other hand, the volume examines different notions of performativity from a phenomenological perspective, so as to show that a phenomenological understanding of embodied experience complements a linguistic account of performativity and can also offer a ground for bodily practices of resistance, critique, and self-transformation in our own day and age.
Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction Section 1: The Performativity of Phenomenology 1 Heidegger’s Performative Phenomenology: Formalization, Enactment and Performativity Daniel O. Dahlstrom 2 From Crisis to Psychoanalysis: Suspension as an Act of Resistance against the Reduction of Subjects’ Singularities Dorothée Legrand 3 Phenomenology and Transformation: Platonic Motifs in Husserlian Phenomenology Antonio Cimino 4 Gadamer Reader of Plato. Performative Exercises in Phenomenological Reading Diego D’Angelo 5 Phenomenology as a Transformative Experience: Heidegger and the Grammar of Middle Voice Lucilla Guidi Section 2: The Phenomenology of Performativity 6 Expression and the Performative. A Reassessment Michela Summa 7 Bodily Performativity: Enacting Norms Maren Wehrle 8 Performing Criticism. (Post)Phenomenological Considerations of Contending Bodies Iris Laner 9 Performativity: The Constitution and Critique of Meaning Thomas Rentsch Section 3: Exercises 10 The Weight of History: From Heidegger to Afro-Pessimism Jan Slaby 11 Performing Phenomenology: The Work of Choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir Susan Kozel 12 Extended Selves: Phenomenological Remarks on Digital Processes of Subjectification Federica Buongiorno
