Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology Performance Apophatics
This book explores the intersection between apophaticism - negative theology - and performance. While apophaticism in literature and critical theory may have had its heyday in the heady debates about negative theology and deconstruction in the 1990s, nega
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NEGATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY PERFORMANCE APOPHATICS Claire Maria Chambers
Performance Philosophy Series Editors Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca University of Surrey Guildford, UK Alice Lagaay Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Weimar, Germany Will Daddario Independent Scholar Asheville, NC, USA
“Performance Apophatics takes the elusive performativity of performance studies, elusive because it is always in process and always about not-knowing, and passes it through the prism of negative theology. Claire Maria Chambers’ vigorous and tightly knit prose unashamedly opens the door on mysticism, religion, negative spirituality, and asks why scholars, and by implication the wider public, shy away from considering the impossibility of knowing God when trying to understand and communicate what lies beyond the limitations of performance. And then she explores not only many answers to her question, but the implications of bringing religious commentary on the via negativa into the performative world of activism, social transgression and transformation, and our relations with things, others, selves, and the unknowable. It is a rich, provocative, and rewarding read.” —Lynette Hunter, Distinguished Professor, History of Rhetoric and Performance, University of California Davis, USA
Performance Philosophy is an interdisciplinary and international field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The Performance Philosophy book series comprises monographs and essay collections addressing the relationship between performance and philosophy within a broad range of philosophical traditions and performance practices, including drama, theatre, performance arts, dance, art and music. It also includes studies of the performative aspects of life and, indeed, philosophy itself. As such, the series addresses the philosophy of performance as well as performance-as-philosophy and philosophy-as-performance. Series Advisory Board: Emmanuel Alloa, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA; James R. Hamilton, Professor of Philosophy, Kansas State University, USA; Bojana Kunst, Professor of Choreography and Performance, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany; Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Professor of Theatre Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Martin Puchner, Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA; Alan Read, Professor of Theatre, King's College London, UK; Freddie Rokem, Professor (Emeritus) of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel. http://www.performancephilosophy.org/books/ More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14558 “As performance—like the rest of our world—tries to make sense of the rise of both religious fundamentalism and new models of spirituality, Claire Maria Chambers has made an important contribution. By putting apothatic thinking into dialogue with performance studies, this book illuminates both, and reaches out beyond t
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