What is a Thoughtful Life?

In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the foundations of broadly western philosophical thinking to carve out a shadowy space of recalcitrant thought 'in dark times'. At once indebted to the legacy of critique and enmeshed in affective and performative approaches to language, anti-theatricality, critical race theory and gender studies, she weaves a poetic mesh of intimate fragments, reflections on what it means to think and to write, as she puts it, after spectacle. Almost but not quite a straight work of philosophy, distinctly literary and performative in its anti-genre, this book twists and turns, swerves and cuts, to show the work of thinking as an intimate act - a theatre of angles and openings, adjacencies and reverberations.

Info autore

Kélina Gotman is Professor of Performance and the Humanities at King's College London

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kélina Gotman
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 16.06.2026
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781526187567
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-8756-7
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Illustrazioni: 3 black & white illustrations
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.8 x 21.6 cm
• Categorie: PHILOSOPHY / Political, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, social and political philosophy, Literary theory, Performance Art, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Popular philosophy: Meaning of life / finding sense in life, Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, gender, performance and philosophy, literary, theatre, truth