The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.

Introduction; Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca & Alice Lagaay; Part I: Genealogies, Contexts & Traditions; 1. Performances of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and in Modernity: Suddenly a philosopher enters the stage Ira Avneri & Freddie Rokem; 2. Theravadin Buddhist Philosophy and Practice in Relation to Performance Jerri Daboo; 3. Performance Philosophy and Spirituality: The Way of Tasawwuf; Michael Ellison & Hannah McClure; 4. Whose Tempest? Performance Philosophy and/as Decolonial Cacophony; Andrés Fabián Henao Castro; 5. The Playwright as Thinker: Modern Drama and Performance Philosophy David Kornhaber; 6. Performance Philosophy seen through Nishida's 'Acting Intuition'; Mayuko Uehara & Elisabeth L. Belgrano; 7. Performance in Anglo-American Philosophy Anna Pakes & David Davies; 8. Performance Philosophy in Latin America: How to Perform a Utopia called America?; Luciana da Costa Dias; 9. Diminishing Returns: On the performativity of musical sound Anthony Gritten; 10. Performance Philosophy and the Philosophy of Mediality Jörg Sternagel, Elisabeth Schäfer & Volkmar Mühleis; 11. The Theatre of Research Anke Haarmann; Part II: Questions & Debates; 12. Opening the Circle, Towards a Radical Equality: Performance Philosophy & Animals Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca; 13. Performance Philosophy as Inter-philosophical Dialogue Cosimo Zene; 14. Decolonizing Performance Philosophies Melissa Blanco Borelli, Anamaría Tamayo Duque & Cristina Fernandes Rosa; 15. Theatre-thinking: philosophy from the stage Flore Garcin-Marrou; 16. Philosophy and Theatre: Incestuous Beginnings, Looking Daggers and other Dangerous Liaisons Emmanuel Alloa & Sophie-Thérèse Krempl; 17. Aesthetics of [the] Invisible: Presence in Indian Performance Theory Sreenath Nair; Part III: Methods, Techniques, Genres & Forms; 18. Performing Phenomenological Methodology Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; 19. Daring to transform academic routines: cultures of knowledge and their performances Jörg Holkenbrink & Anna Seitz; 20. Resonance of Two Karen Christopher; 21. Lying Fallow: anonymity and collectivity Rajni Shah; 22. Play in Performance Philosophy Alice Koubová; 23. Landscape performance Tess Denman-Cleaver; 24. Re-telling the self: the lived experience of modern yoga practice Theodora Wildcroft; 25. The Think Tank: Institution as Performance Sonya Dyer; 26. Touch Naomi Woo; 27. In-Between: A Methodology of Performative Philosophy Eva Maria Gauss & Katrin Felgenhauer; 28. Africanist choreography as cultural citizenship 'Funmi Adewole; Part IV: Figures; 29. Rumi Will Daddario; 30. Adrian Piper Lauren Fournier; 31. Diogenes Yunus Tuncel; 32. A dice thrower Mischa Twitchin; 33. Open text - open performance: Hélène Cixous and Ariane Mnouchkine Elisabeth Schäfer, Esther Hutfless & Gertrude Postl; 34. Roger Federer Einav Katan-Schmid; 35. 26 Mesostics Re and not Re John Cage Anthony Gritten; 36. Confucius Mi You; 37. Rudolf Laban Juliet Chambers-Coe; Part V: Performance as Philosophy & Philosophy as Performance; 38. Theatre As If Theory Esther Neff & Yelena Gluzman; 39. Dance as Embodied Ethics Aili Bresnahan, Einav Katan-Schmid, & Sara Houston; 40. Philosophy on Stage Arno Böhler & Susanne Valerie [Granzer]; 41. Pas de Deux: Écriture Féminine Performative Tina Chanter & Tawny Andersen; 42. Onanism, Handjobs, Smut: Performances of Self-valorization Fumi Okiji; 43. Explosions of 'Creative Indifference'. Salomo Friedlaender, Sun Ra, Serendipity and the Idea of a 'Heliocentre' Alice Lagaay in conversation with Hartmut Geerken; 44. In the Making - an incomplete consideration of the first decade of Every house has a door 2008 to 2018 as performance philosophy Will Daddario, Matthew Goulish & Lin Hixson; 45. Blackout: thinking with darkness Tru Paraha & Theron Schmidt