Phenomenology as Performative Exercise

Lucilla Guidi (Ph.D.) is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Her main research interests are phenomenology, performativity and Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Her publications include the book Il rovescio del performativo (2016), as well as many articles on Heidegger and Wittgenstein.Thomas Rentsch is Professor of Practical Philosophy/Ethics at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. His fields of research are phenomenology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of language. His latest book is Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts

• List of ContributorsIntroductionSection 1: The Performativity of Phenomenology1 Heidegger’s Performative Phenomenology: Formalization, Enactment and PerformativityDaniel O. Dahlstrom2 From Crisis to Psychoanalysis: Suspension as an Act of Resistance against the Reduction of Subjects’ SingularitiesDorothée Legrand3 Phenomenology and Transformation: Platonic Motifs in Husserlian PhenomenologyAntonio Cimino4 Gadamer Reader of Plato. Performative Exercises in Phenomenological ReadingDiego D’Angelo5 Phenomenology as a Transformative Experience: Heidegger and the Grammar of Middle VoiceLucilla GuidiSection 2: The Phenomenology of Performativity6 Expression and the Performative. A ReassessmentMichela Summa7 Bodily Performativity: Enacting NormsMaren Wehrle8 Performing Criticism. (Post)Phenomenological Considerations of Contending BodiesIris Laner9 Performativity: The Constitution and Critique of MeaningThomas RentschSection 3: Exercises10 The Weight of History: From Heidegger to Afro-PessimismJan Slaby11 Performing Phenomenology: The Work of Choreographer Margrét Sara GuðjónsdóttirSusan Kozel12 Extended Selves: Phenomenological Remarks on Digital Processes of SubjectificationFederica Buongiorno