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This essay presents an alternative view of the relationship between writing, performance, and philosophy to that offered by Martin Puchner’s contribution to this volume—introducing some important female characters to his narrative and emphasizing the notion of philosophy as a process without essence, rather than as a clearly-defined discipline. Interweaving tales involving figures from Diotima of Mantinea to Charles Reznikoff, the essay takes inspiration from Puchner’s account of the history of world literature to envisage the emerging field of Performance Philosophy as a scene of instruction where philosophy is performed as an embodied relation to movement and the unknown.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann, trans. John Oxenford. (Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 1998), 164.
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Maoilearca, L.C.Ó. (2017). Stories from the In-Between: Performing Philosophy Alongside the Unknown. In: Street, A., Alliot, J., Pauker, M. (eds) Inter Views in Performance Philosophy. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95192-5_4
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