A Life of Ethics and Performance.

By:

Matthews, John

Contributor(s):

Torevell, Dr. David

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Liverpool Hope University studies in ethics series ; 6.Publication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (167 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443830591
1443830593
9786613143020
6613143022

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PN2051

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Contents:

Forword -- Introduction -- A prologue -- Performing life, living performance -- Being yourself -- Being touched -- Crisis -- Troublesome amateurs: theatre, ethics and the labour of mimesis -- Corpsing -- The sense of an ending: notes for beginners -- Contributors -- Index.

Summary: Ethics is, in an important sense, a matter of 'being good' but it is also a question about how to live a 'good life'. This book's emphasis on the theatrical and performative and their relationship to ethics, highlights that being good is, a matter of acting good and that acting good is a question of performing (or not-performing) certain roles and duties. This book surveys the most recent work in the field of ethics and performance, organizing this research through the metaphor of 'the good ...

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Ethics is, in an important sense, a matter of 'being good' but it is also a question about how to live a 'good life'. This book's emphasis on the theatrical and performative and their relationship to ethics, highlights that being good is, a matter of acting good and that acting good is a question of performing (or not-performing) certain roles and duties. This book surveys the most recent work in the field of ethics and performance, organizing this research through the metaphor of 'the good ...