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    Faith and Doubt: The Noematic Dimensions of Belief in Husserl
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (3): 346-355. 2015.
    In examining Husserl's noesis–noema correlate, which characterizes his intentionality thesis of 1913, this article argues toward “presentation” as a sufficient mode of givenness in accounting for religious phenomena by demonstrating how an intentional analysis of faith and doubt is possible if one's regard is directed toward the noetic moment of believing and its corresponding noema: the “believed as believed.” This will be shown by directly engaging with the eidetic laws of Husserl's series of …Read more
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    Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself (edited book)
    with Stuart Grant and Matthew Wagner
    Springer Verlag. 2019.
    This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. It brings together major scholars in the field, dealing with phenomenological approaches to dance, theatre, performance, embodiment, audience, and everyday performance of self. It argues that despite the wide variety of philosophical, ontological, epistemological, historical and methodological differences across the field of phenomenology, certain tendencies and impulses are re…Read more
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    Phenomenologically Absurd, Absurdly Phenomenological
    In Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie & Matthew Wagner (eds.), Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself, Springer Verlag. pp. 185-202. 2019.
    This chapter looks to a “Husserlian-influenced” phenomenology to augment our understanding of one of the most significant—and open-ended—categories of theatre to emerge in the past century: the so-called Theatre of the Absurd. Here, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie and Pierre-Jean Renaudie examine Beckett, SamuelEndgame to make an argument that the standing definitions of “absurdityabsurdity—grounded in Martin Esslin’s genesis of the term—are incomplete. The authors here argue that a consideration Husser…Read more
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    Philosophers have faced the problem of self or inner awareness since the self, itself, became something to be known and/or understood. Once dancers ‘let go of the mirror’ they too began to face the problem and limits to bodily awareness, developing specific reflective practices to obtain access to their inner bodily selves. But for the phenomenologist, reflection requires an active process of perception, which problematises our grasping of the so-called hidden, organising structures of movement …Read more
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    A Phenomenology of/with Total Movement: Response to Erin Manning
    Body and Society 20 (3-4): 208-221. 2014.
    In ‘Wondering the world directly’, Erin Manning criticizes phenomenology by drawing upon Merleau-Ponty’s reflections on the problems of his own project and the criticisms of José Gil. Manning claims that phenomenology goes ‘wrong’ in its privileging of the subject and processes of intentionality: the ‘consciousness–object distinction’. While phenomenology on this understanding alone is inadequate to account for movement and the body, process philosophy has the ‘ability to create a field for expe…Read more
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    Introduction
    with Stuart Grant and Matthew Wagner
    In Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie & Matthew Wagner (eds.), Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-16. 2019.
    This chapter sets out the aims and structure of the book. While it foregoes much of the conventional “setting the table” work of such chapters, it does offer some grounding thoughts on the need for a book such as this and on the importance of tracing the multiple types of relationship between phenomenology and performance. It also offers brief descriptions of each chapter, placing them in the context of the book’s structure and providing a sense of some of the links between them.
  • The moving icon
    In Antonio Calcagno, Steve G. Lofts, Rachel Bath & Kathryn Lawson (eds.), Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2017.