The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks new ground, presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the way for future scholarship. Staging Philosophy raises issues of critical importance by providing case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought, including aesthetics, analytic philosophy, phenomenology, deconstruction, critical realism, and cognitive science. The essays, which are organized into three sections—history and method, presence, and reception—take up fundamental issues such as spectatorship, empathy, ethics, theater as literature, and the essence of live performance. While some essays challenge assertions made by critics and historians of theater and performance, others analyze the assumptions of manifestos that prescribe how practitioners should go about creating texts and performances. The first book to bridge the disciplines of theater and philosophy, Staging Philosophy will provoke, stimulate, engage, and ultimately bring theater to the foreground of intellectual inquiry while it inspires further philosophical investigation into theater and performance. David Krasner is Associate Professor of Theater Studies, African American Studies, and English at Yale University. His books include A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1920 and Renaissance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910. He is co-editor of the series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. David Z. Saltz is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia. He is coeditor of Theater Journal and is the principal investigator of the innovative Virtual Vaudeville project at the University of Georgia.

舞台哲学》中的15篇原创文章在哲学学科与戏剧和表演领域之间建立了有益的联系，并利用这些见解来发展关于戏剧的新理论。每位作者都是表演和哲学领域的领先学者，他们开拓了新的领域，提出了新的论点，并提供了新的理论，这将为未来的学术研究铺平道路。舞台哲学》通过提供各种哲学运动和思想流派的案例研究提出了至关重要的问题，包括美学、分析哲学、现象学、解构主义、批判现实主义和认知科学。这些文章分为三个部分--历史和方法、在场和接受--讨论了一些基本问题，如观众身份、同理心、伦理学、作为文学的戏剧以及现场表演的本质。一些文章对戏剧和表演的批评家和历史学家的论断提出了挑战，而另一些文章则分析了宣言的假设，这些宣言规定了从业者应该如何去创造文本和表演。作为第一本连接戏剧和哲学学科的书，《舞台哲学》将引发、刺激、参与，并最终将戏剧带到知识探索的前台，同时激发对戏剧和表演的进一步哲学研究。大卫-克拉斯纳是耶鲁大学戏剧研究、非裔美国人研究和英语的副教授。他的著作包括《美丽的盛会》。1910-1920年哈莱姆文艺复兴时期的非裔美国人剧院、戏剧和表演》和《1895-1910年非裔美国人剧院的文艺复兴、戏仿和双重意识》。他是《剧院》系列的共同编辑。理论/文本/表演》系列的联合编辑。David Z. Saltz是佐治亚大学戏剧研究的副教授和戏剧与电影研究系主任。他是《剧院杂志》的联合编辑，也是佐治亚大学创新的虚拟杂耍项目的主要调查者。