Organon F
Volume 31, November 2024, Issue 4, Pages 411–431
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
What is acting? What type of action does an actor perform when portraying their character? Is it possible to conceptually distinguish acting from other types of activities? This paper aims to answer these types of questions about defining acting. My work involves two aspects. On one hand, I argue that the three current popular theories defining acting (the pretense theory, the display account, and the game model) are implausible; namely, acting cannot be reduced to a simple state or event. On the other hand, I argue that acting should be understood as a process and try to clarify the distinctive characteristics of this process.
Acting; theater; process; pretense; display; game.
Author
Yuchen Guo
Affiliation
Lanzhou University
Address
School of Philosophy and Sociology, Lanzhou University, TianShui Southroad 222, Chengguan District, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Received
14 March 2024
Accepted
17 November 2024
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Guo, Y. (2024). Acting as Process. Organon F, 31(4), 411–431. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2024.31405
Chicago
Guo, Yuchen. 2024. "Acting as Process." Organon F 31 (4): 411–431. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2024.31405
Harvard
Guo, Y. (2024). Acting as Process. Organon F, 31(4), pp. 411–431. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2024.31405
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