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Is Man, by Nature, an Actor?

Summary/Abstract: The study discusses Shakespeare’s metaphor that the whole world is a stage and seeks to establish a framework for perceiving human existence as actorly existence. In this context, it examines the extent to which Claude Romano’s phenomenology may be interpreted through the lens of theatrical thinking. It engages with traditional concepts of acting as articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Erving Goffman, subsequently translating them into the ontological framework of Romano’s eventual phenomenology. Whereas Gadamer conceives of play as the self-presentation of the work of art and Goffman relocates acting within everyday interaction, Romano radicalises the entire field by interrogating the very notion of the subject. In place of a stable “self”, he introduces the concept of the advenant – a being defined by its existence outside itself. The study argues that acting may serve as a hermeneutic model for understanding how the advenant undergoes a transformation, assumes responsibility for the possibilities opened up by the event, and establishes itself on the stage of the world through speech.

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