Incapacity Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior / Spencer Golub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golub, Spencer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language's representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein's thought a further, very personal significanceâ€"its therapeutic quality with respect to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from which he suffers. Underlying what Golub calls “performance behaviorâ€_x009d_ is Wittgenstein's notion of “pain behaviorâ€_x009d_â€"that which gives public expression to private experience. Golub charts new directions for exploring the relationship between theater and philosophy, and even for scholarly criticism itself.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Tractatus Illogico-Philosophicus 15

Chapter 2 Wittgenstein's Anatomy 35

Chapter 3 Catastrophists 59

Chapter 4 Doors of Misperception 89

Chapter 5 Rules of the Game

Chapter 6 Non-Sleeper Agents 147

Chapter 7 Masterminds 179

Chapter 8 The Idiot's Anxiety at the Object's Disappearance 207

Chapter 9 Homeless 233.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101388

ISBN:

9780810129924