Logomimesis

<p>How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosophical ethical and political thinking today?</p><p>This book is a study of the body and language on the stage. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and performance philosophy Esa Kirkkopelto proposes a new understanding of embodiment that has no direct counterpart in existing philosophies of the body in natural science or in everyday experience. The way a performer imagines their body in performance breaks with body–language dichotomies so language and body can be conceived as co-original phenomena beyond their anthropomorphic framing. Once we recognize the native relationship between body and language we can acquire an evolutive perspective which reaches beyond ontological or transcendental paradigms towards a more linguistic and corporeal coexistence of diverse beings.</p><p>This book shows how radically different the universe appears when conceived through the performing body. It addresses artists and philosophers alike.</p>