Being in Crisis: Scenes of Blindness and Insight in Tragedy
Tragedy was considered ‘highly serious, political (in some sense)—and religious’, at its origin in Athens in 427 BCE (Winnington-Ingram, 1989: 5). In spite of its centuries-old existence the trope still troubles theatre and performance philosophy scholars. As Simon Critchley (2017) recently put it:...
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Performance Philosophy
2018-08-01
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Online Access: | http://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/199 |