‘HEGEL SAYS’: ventriloquising the word (of) ‘HIM’ with Anne Carson’s Antigonick. Anne Carson’s recent ‘translation’ of Sophokles Ancient tragedy – enigmatically retitled Antigonick (Carson 2012) – can be read as a contemporary feminist coup de théâtre, and constitutes an important case study in the emergent field of Performance Philosophy. Here, the … Lire la suite →

From the Theatrical to the Performative in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy Between 1936-42, in the wake of his frustration with the failure of Being and Time to escape the language and thinking of metaphysics, Martin Heidegger embarked on a series … Lire la suite →