Phenomenology as Performative Exercise

Download or read book Phenomenology as Performative Exercise written by Lucilla Guidi and published by Studies in Contemporary Phenom. This book was released on 2020 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.