Format:
1 Onlineressource (89 Seiten, 1374 KB)
Content:
In this cartography, I examine M.K. Gandhi’s practice of fasting for political purposes from a specifically aesthetic perspective. In other words, to foreground their dramatic qualities, how they in their expressive repetition, patterning and stylization produced a/effected heightened forms of emotions. To carry out this task, I follow the theater scholar Erika Fischer-Lichte’s features that give name to her book Äesthetik des Performativen (2004). The cartography is framed in a philosophical presentation of Gandhi’s discourse as well as of his historical sources. Moreover, as a second frame, I historicize the fasts, by means of a typology and teleology in context. The historically and discoursively framed cartography maps four main dimensions that define the aesthetics of the performative: mediality, materiality, semioticity and aestheticity. [...]
Note:
Masterarbeit Universität Potsdam 2019
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.25932/publishup-46933
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469333
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469333
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1219515418/34
Author information:
Wiemann, Dirk 1964-
Author information:
Ungelenk, Johannes
