What a Performance! Madonna, Montaigne, Cyrano and Existential Anguish
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https://doi.org/10.65828/8b3n5302Keywords:
Madonna, Montaigne, Eliot, Barnes, dance, performance, wonder, temporality, grief, elusive.Abstract
This is less a 'paper' than an essay; and as such is merely an 'attempt,' a 'trying,' moving towards inevitable incompleteness and not knowing. I attempt a consideration of a range of artistic and philosophical responses to the significant moment(s) of anguish and loss in human experience. Along the way I try out an engagement with concepts of being/becoming, uncertainty, wonder and performance, considering their value in our Sisyphean attempt to grasp the elusive.
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