Perfomance in Philosophy: One Man Play or a Living Personified Thought

DOI

10.2991/icassee-19.2019.126How to use a DOI?

Keywords

theatre; culture; philosophical performances; Jerzy Grotowski; A. Badiou; K. Stanislavski

Abstract

The paper investigates the problems of convergence of philosophy and theatre, the amount of actors’ contribution to creating or performing oral philosophical text, to analyze the professional philosopher’s (or a teacher of philosophy) methods that are used to “vividly reproduce” the philosophical views in the minds of the listening audience, which brings together the art of philosopher’s speech and performing arts. The analysis of K. Stanislavski, M. Chekhov, Jerzy Grotowski’s works on the art of acting, along with the works on the phenomenon of theatre (namely, of A. Badiou), and a range of classical philosophical works, that are analyzed in terms of their performing potential, could contribute to highlighting the central issue: what really makes oral philosophical text expressive. A possible answer is the image of the thought that has its specific space or stage for performance, set by philosopher himself by “drama” means. The unity of philosophy and theatre has a bright future ahead. It is already obvious that the process of thinking alongside acting and happening will become a central point of a public thinker’s activity.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ruzana Pskhu
AU  - Andrey Paribok
AU  - Galina Zashchitina
AU  - Anna Martseva
AU  - Nadezhda Danilova
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TI  - Perfomance in Philosophy: One Man Play or a Living Personified Thought
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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