Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
Claire Chambers
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Description for Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
Hardback. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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, negative ways of knowing and speaking have continued to structure conversations in theatre and performance studies around issues of embodiment, the non- and post-human, objects, archives, the ethics of otherness in intercultural research, and the unreadable and inaccessible in the work of minority artists. A great part of the history of apophaticism lies in mystic literature. With the rise of the New Age ... Read more
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, negative ways of knowing and speaking have continued to structure conversations in theatre and performance studies around issues of embodiment, the non- and post-human, objects, archives, the ethics of otherness in intercultural research, and the unreadable and inaccessible in the work of minority artists. A great part of the history of apophaticism lies in mystic literature. With the rise of the New Age ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Performance Philosophy
Number of Pages
301
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137520432
SKU
V9781137520432
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99-15
About Claire Chambers
Claire Maria Chambers teaches modern American and British drama at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea. Her articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, Performance Research, and Text and Performance Quarterly, among others.
Reviews for Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
“Intellectually stimulating and thoroughly engaging, Claire Maria Chambers’s Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics, is an ambitious interweaving of the two concepts in her title, generating an emerging methodological approach predicated on a practice of ‘critical unknowing’. … this is a rewarding, challenging book, written with intellectual integrity and sagacity. It will surely make an important contribution to the ... Read more