Author: Daniel Koczy File Type: pdf This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between aspects of Becketts theatrical practice and a range of concepts drawn from Deleuzes philosophy. Through the force of these encounters, a new range of concepts is invented. These provide novel ways of thinking affect and the body in performance the possibility of theatrical automation and the importance of failure and invention in our attempts to respond to performance encounters. Further, this book includes new approaches to Becketts later theatrical work and provides an overview of Deleuzes conception of philosophical practice as an ongoing struggle to think with immanence. **Review Not only does Daniel Koczy remain true to the radical importance of alterity and the unthought in Deleuzes philosophy, he also takes them seriously by producing a dazzling new range of concepts from the encounter of Deleuze and Becketts work.Beckett, Deleuze and Performanceis not only a tour de force of scholarship, but a courageous attempt to create and affirm the new itself. (Stephen Zepke,Vienna, Austria) Koczy takes seriously the aporias at the heart of these works. Just as Deleuze contends that art leads to thought rather than telling us what to think, Koczy leads us, with careful attention and unerring erudition, into the heart of Becketts failures. (Professor Anthony Uhlmann, Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Australia) From the Back Cover This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between aspects of Becketts theatrical practice and a range of concepts drawn from Deleuzes philosophy. Through the force of these encounters, a new range of concepts is invented. These provide novel ways of thinking affect and the body in performance the possibility of theatrical automation and the importance of failure and invention in our attempts to respond to performance encounters. Further, this book includes new approaches to Becketts later theatrical work and provides an overview of Deleuzes conception of philosophical practice as an ongoing struggle to think with immanence.

Author: Andreea Deciu Ritivoi File Type: pdf Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought shaping American political discourse after World War II. Yet none of them was American, and this was crucial to their thinking, which relied on ways of arguing and reasoning that stand both inside and outside of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their cosmopolitanism feel acceptable, inspiring radical new approaches to longstanding problems in American politics. Speaking like natives, they also exploited their foreignness to entice listeners to embrace alternative modes of thought. Intimate Strangers unpacks this Ostranger ethos,O a blend of detachment and involvement that manifested in the persona of a prophet for Solzhenitsyn, an impartial observer for Arendt, a mentor for Marcuse, and a victim for Said. Despite its many successes, though, the stranger ethos did alienate audiences, and many critics continue to dismiss these thinkers not for their positions but because of their foreign point of view. This book concludes with an appeal to reject this kind of xenophobia, throwing support behind a political discourse that accounts for the ideals of both citizens and noncitizens.