Claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity.
Claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity.
Ellwood Wiggins is an assistant professor of German at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Overview of Contents ... vii Illustrations ... viii Abbreviations ... ix A Note on Translations and Orthography ... xi Introduction: Performing Recognition ... 1 Interiority Illusion Instantaneousness Illusion Recognition as Performance Aims and Scope of Readings Part I. Marking the Limits of Recognition: Between Aristotle and the Odyssey ... 31 1 “Just as the name itself signifies”: Under the Sign of Recognition ... 37 Nostalgia and Recognition Recognitions in Mycenae and Sparta Nostalgic Recognition and Epic Afterness Self-signification and the Nostalgia of Semiotics 2 “Recognition is a change”: Performance in Motion ... 84 Rhapsodic Mimesis and Narration Change in Aristotle’s Physics and Poetics Crying for Show in the Odyssey Recognition in Performance Theory and Moral Philosophy 3 “From ignorance to knowledge”: Penelope’s Poetological Epistemology ... 131 Penelopean Epistemology (Reading Penelope) Penelopean Poetics (Penelope Reading) 4 “Into friendship or enmity”: An Ethics of Authentic Deception ... 164 5 “For those bound for good or bad fortune”: Casualties of Recognition ... 193 Part II. Outing Interiority: Modern Recognitions ... 211 6 Self-Knowledge Between Plato and Shakespeare: Alcibiades and Troilus and Cressida ... 218 Philosophy or Theater? Mirrored Dramatic Structures Mirrored Selves 7 Metamorphoses of Recognition: Goethe’s “Fortunate Event” ... 248 “Glückliches Ereignis” as Anagnorisis Scene Recognizing Action: Visualizing Stories Recognizing Things: Experiencing Ideas Recognizing People: Moving Tableaux 8 Epistemologies of Recognition: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and the Spectacle of Catharsis ... 292 Spirals of Intertextual Performance Intertextual Intersubjectivity Intertextual Spectacle The Effects of Tragedy 9 Politics of Recognition: Friends, Enemies, and Goethe’s Iphigenie ... 324 Between Recognition and Acknowledgement The Exception of Friendship The Promise of Politics 10 The Fate of Recognition: Kleist’s Penthesilea ... 361 The Mirrored Gaze Plays within Plays Concluding Reflections: Signifying Silence in Blumenberg and Kafka ... 403 Acknowledgements ... 417 Bibliography ... 421 Index ... 448 About the Author ... 449
Overview of Contents ... vii Illustrations ... viii Abbreviations ... ix A Note on Translations and Orthography ... xi Introduction: Performing Recognition ... 1 Interiority Illusion Instantaneousness Illusion Recognition as Performance Aims and Scope of Readings Part I. Marking the Limits of Recognition: Between Aristotle and the Odyssey ... 31 1 “Just as the name itself signifies”: Under the Sign of Recognition ... 37 Nostalgia and Recognition Recognitions in Mycenae and Sparta Nostalgic Recognition and Epic Afterness Self-signification and the Nostalgia of Semiotics 2 “Recognition is a change”: Performance in Motion ... 84 Rhapsodic Mimesis and Narration Change in Aristotle’s Physics and Poetics Crying for Show in the Odyssey Recognition in Performance Theory and Moral Philosophy 3 “From ignorance to knowledge”: Penelope’s Poetological Epistemology ... 131 Penelopean Epistemology (Reading Penelope) Penelopean Poetics (Penelope Reading) 4 “Into friendship or enmity”: An Ethics of Authentic Deception ... 164 5 “For those bound for good or bad fortune”: Casualties of Recognition ... 193 Part II. Outing Interiority: Modern Recognitions ... 211 6 Self-Knowledge Between Plato and Shakespeare: Alcibiades and Troilus and Cressida ... 218 Philosophy or Theater? Mirrored Dramatic Structures Mirrored Selves 7 Metamorphoses of Recognition: Goethe’s “Fortunate Event” ... 248 “Glückliches Ereignis” as Anagnorisis Scene Recognizing Action: Visualizing Stories Recognizing Things: Experiencing Ideas Recognizing People: Moving Tableaux 8 Epistemologies of Recognition: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and the Spectacle of Catharsis ... 292 Spirals of Intertextual Performance Intertextual Intersubjectivity Intertextual Spectacle The Effects of Tragedy 9 Politics of Recognition: Friends, Enemies, and Goethe’s Iphigenie ... 324 Between Recognition and Acknowledgement The Exception of Friendship The Promise of Politics 10 The Fate of Recognition: Kleist’s Penthesilea ... 361 The Mirrored Gaze Plays within Plays Concluding Reflections: Signifying Silence in Blumenberg and Kafka ... 403 Acknowledgements ... 417 Bibliography ... 421 Index ... 448 About the Author ... 449
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