1st Edition
Performing Human Consciousness A Philosophical Investigation into the Staging of the Mind
Foreword: A personal journey
Introduction
Part I: The performance of consciousness
Chapter 1: Going beyond the theatre metaphor
Chapter 2: Which consciousness
Chapter 3: What is it like to be conscious?
Chapter 4: The play’s the thing
Chapter 5: What it is like to be me
Chapter 6: The properties of dreaming consciousness
Part II: The rise of the performance of consciousness in theatre scripts
Chapter 7: Agon
Chapter 8: The rise of the psychological play
Chapter 9: The postmodern play and the internal theatre
Chapter 10: The lyrical return
Chapter 11: The theatre of energetics on the page
Chapter 12: All the mind is staged
Index
Biography
Dr. Vanessa Dodd is a writer, theatre director, drama practitioner and actor who trained initially at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She has had a lifelong interest in philosophy, particularly in the early Romantic philosophers and American transcendentalists and more recently in consciousness studies. She was formerly a senior lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of South Wales and at the University of Wales, Newport, where she was also Programme Leader for the Applied Drama course.
