TY - BOOK AU - Golub,Spencer ED - Project Muse. TI - Incapacity : : Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior / SN - 9780810167797 PY - 2014/// CY - Evanston, Illinois PB - Northwestern University Press KW - Wittgenstein, Ludwig, KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - fast KW - Literature, Modern KW - Language and languages KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Aesthetics KW - bisacsh KW - Langage et langues KW - Philosophie KW - Rendement au travail KW - Litterature KW - 20e siecle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Performance KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Introduction: thoughts thinking themselves --; Tractatus-illogico-philosophicus --; Wittgenstein's anatomy --; Catastrophists --; Doors of misperception --; Rules of the game --; Non-sleeper agents --; Masterminds --; The idiot's anxiety at the object's disappearance --; Homeless; Open Access N2 - In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language's representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein's thought a further, very personal significanceâ€"its therapeutic quality with respect to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from which he suffers. Underlying what Golub calls â€oeperformance behaviorâ€_x009d_ is Wittgenstein's notion of â€oepain behaviorâ€_x009d_â€"that which gives public expression to private experience. Golub charts new directions for exploring the relationship between theater and philosophy, and even for scholarly criticism itself UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/33156/ ER -