Overview
- Uses the lens of Martin Heidegger's thought to interpret literature, theatre, and film pieces
- Studies the idea of being-there that performs itself beyond liveness and a future that is already here
- Reimagines the idea of the book-as-such and what thinking is
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This book applies Heidegger’s writings to experimental fictions and film genres in order to study a being-there that performs itself beyond liveness and a future that is already here. Theatrical mise-en-scène is analyzed as a way of modeling the Heideggerian ontological-existential, exchanging a deeper presencing for the fictional “now” of liveness. The book is organized around ostensible objects that are in fact things-as-such and performs its theme via time-traveling, interruptions, decompositions, incompleteness, failure, geometric patterning, and above all black pages first cited in Tristram Shandy. This is a nuanced, original work that combines unexpected sources with even more unexpected writing, imagery, and correspondences. It is part of Golub’s ongoing project of lyrically reimagining philosophy and the mise-en-scène of theatrical performance (a presence-room of consciousness) in light of one another.
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“Golub’s novel interpretative approach introduces philosophical thinking to the fields of literature, film, and the performative arts, and by that deepens and enriches the theoretical discussion taking place within these fields.” (Dror Pimentel, Senior Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem, Israel)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Spencer Golub is Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Comparative Literature, and Slavic Studies at Brown University, USA. He is the author of six previous books: A Philosophical Autofiction: Dolor’s Youth; The Baroque Night; Incapacity: Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior; Infinity (Stage); The Recurrence of Fate: Theatre and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia; and Evreinov: The Theatre of Paradox and Transformation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heidegger and Future Presencing (The Black Pages)
Authors: Spencer Golub
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31889-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31888-8Published: 06 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31891-8Published: 06 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31889-5Published: 18 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Existentialism, Experimental Film, Performing Arts