Tobin Nellhaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1710647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobin Nellhaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nellhaus |
| SIGNATURE | NELLHAUS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar New York New York USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3622-0374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deleuze’s concept of virtuality and critical realist ontology
Theatre Histories
Commemorative drama and Carnival
This chapter considers commemorative drama and Carnival, including instances in which the commemorative and the carnivalesque are combined in the same occasion, from the second century in China through the sixteenth in Europe. It focuses primarily on religious observances that lend themselves to commemorative performances: the Jewish Purim shpil, the Islamic Ta’ziyeh, India’s Ramlila, and the many forms of Christian ritual and drama, designed to …
Peirce's Universal Categories and Critical Realist Ontology
Much of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy hinges on his “universal categories” of Firstness (qualities, potentialities), Secondness (action, otherness) and Thirdness (relationship, rule‐boundedness). Despite their abstractness, the categories have concrete applications and shed light on several critical realist theories, such as its ontological domains, its social ontology and its more nascent semiotics. Using Peirce's categories this way requires b…
Does critical realism need the concept of three domains of reality? A roundtable
The concept of the three domains of reality is widely used in empirical critical realist research. However, there has been little scrutiny of how the domains are conceptualized and what they contribute to critical realism and how they should be applied in empirical research. This paper involves four arguments. First, Tom Fryer and Cristián Navarrete argue that the three domains of reality are redundant, confusing, and unsupported by Bhaskar’s the…
Embodied Collective Reflexivity
Most work on reflexivity has focused on individuals exercising their reflexivity through discourse. However, agents have three major aspects (intentionality, causal efficacy and embodiment) and they are fundamentally social. This article examines the possibility of collective reflexivity conducted not just by saying, but also by doing—that is, through their embodiment. By expanding the concept of ‘performatives’ to encompass not just speech acts …
The Necessity of Errors
Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to be eradicated. Drawing on the fragmented corpus of writing on error, from Locke to Luxemburg, Adorno to Vaneigem, and covering five key areas from philosophy to political praxis, this wide-ranging account …
Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism
From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As
Performance strategies, image schemas, and communication frameworks
Image schemas, according to contemporary cognitive science, are conceptual structures arising from sensorimotor and in some cases social experiences. They are not fully-fledged images or mental pictures, since they lack particularity and detail: they are abstract or recurrent patterns – tropes, if you will, of space, time, material and action. Examples include “container,” “path,” “force,” “link,” “cycle,” “part-whole,” “up-down,” “center-periphe…
From Embodiment to Agency
The primacy of practice in the development of knowledge is one of materialism's fundamental tenets. Most arguments supporting it have been strictly philosophical. However, over the past thirty years cognitive science has provided mounting evidence supporting the primacy of practice. Particularly striking is its finding that thought is fundamentally metaphoric—that images emerging from everyday embodied activities not only make ordinary experience…
From Embodiment to Agency
The primacy of practice in the development of knowledge is one of materialism's fundamental tenets. Most arguments supporting it have been strictly philosophical. However, over the past thirty years cognitive science has provided mounting evidence supporting the primacy of practice. Particularly striking is its finding that thought is fundamentally metaphoric—that images emerging from everyday embodied activities not only make ordinary experience…
Signs, Social Ontology, and Critical Realism
Even though sign‐systems are a crucial part of society, critical realism, as developed by Roy Bhaskar, does not yet have an adequate theory of signs and semiosis. The few suggestions that Bhaskar offers can be advanced through the semiotics of C.S. Peirce. In doing so, however, it becomes necessary to reconsider Bhaskar’s ontological domains of the real, the actual, and the subjective, and expand the last domain into one of semiosis. This new und…
To Act, to Do, to Perform
A philosophical inquiry into how action is constituted by language, materiality, and performance
Science, History, Theatre
Until recently, positivism reigned supreme in theatre historiography. Since the mid-1970s, however, other approaches have contested this orthodoxy, criticizing positivism on varying grounds. Lately such attacks have become more frequent and intense.' Two approaches stand out as major alternatives to positivism: conventionalism and realism. However, the differences between their critiques are not always understood, and in their common efforts to e…
Serious Money
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Signs, Social Ontology, and Critical Realism
Even though sign‐systems are a crucial part of society, critical realism, as developed by Roy Bhaskar, does not yet have an adequate theory of signs and semiosis. The few suggestions that Bhaskar offers can be advanced through the semiotics of C.S. Peirce. In doing so, however, it becomes necessary to reconsider Bhaskar’s ontological domains of the real, the actual, and the subjective, and expand the last domain into one of semiosis. This new und…
Does critical realism need the concept of three domains of reality? A roundtable
The concept of the three domains of reality is widely used in empirical critical realist research. However, there has been little scrutiny of how the domains are conceptualized and what they contribute to critical realism and how they should be applied in empirical research. This paper involves four arguments. First, Tom Fryer and Cristián Navarrete argue that the three domains of reality are redundant, confusing, and unsupported by Bhaskar’s the…
To Act, to Do, to Perform
A philosophical inquiry into how action is constituted by language, materiality, and performance
Peirce's Universal Categories and Critical Realist Ontology
Much of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy hinges on his “universal categories” of Firstness (qualities, potentialities), Secondness (action, otherness) and Thirdness (relationship, rule‐boundedness). Despite their abstractness, the categories have concrete applications and shed light on several critical realist theories, such as its ontological domains, its social ontology and its more nascent semiotics. Using Peirce's categories this way requires b…
Science, History, Theatre
Until recently, positivism reigned supreme in theatre historiography. Since the mid-1970s, however, other approaches have contested this orthodoxy, criticizing positivism on varying grounds. Lately such attacks have become more frequent and intense.' Two approaches stand out as major alternatives to positivism: conventionalism and realism. However, the differences between their critiques are not always understood, and in their common efforts to e…
Serious Money
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Science, History, Theatre
Until recently, positivism reigned supreme in theatre historiography. Since the mid-1970s, however, other approaches have contested this orthodoxy, criticizing positivism on varying grounds. Lately such attacks have become more frequent and intense.' Two approaches stand out as major alternatives to positivism: conventionalism and realism. However, the differences between their critiques are not always understood, and in their common efforts to e…
To Act, to Do, to Perform
A philosophical inquiry into how action is constituted by language, materiality, and performance
Signs, Social Ontology, and Critical Realism
Even though sign‐systems are a crucial part of society, critical realism, as developed by Roy Bhaskar, does not yet have an adequate theory of signs and semiosis. The few suggestions that Bhaskar offers can be advanced through the semiotics of C.S. Peirce. In doing so, however, it becomes necessary to reconsider Bhaskar’s ontological domains of the real, the actual, and the subjective, and expand the last domain into one of semiosis. This new und…
From Embodiment to Agency
The primacy of practice in the development of knowledge is one of materialism's fundamental tenets. Most arguments supporting it have been strictly philosophical. However, over the past thirty years cognitive science has provided mounting evidence supporting the primacy of practice. Particularly striking is its finding that thought is fundamentally metaphoric—that images emerging from everyday embodied activities not only make ordinary experience…
From Embodiment to Agency
The primacy of practice in the development of knowledge is one of materialism's fundamental tenets. Most arguments supporting it have been strictly philosophical. However, over the past thirty years cognitive science has provided mounting evidence supporting the primacy of practice. Particularly striking is its finding that thought is fundamentally metaphoric—that images emerging from everyday embodied activities not only make ordinary experience…
Performance strategies, image schemas, and communication frameworks
Image schemas, according to contemporary cognitive science, are conceptual structures arising from sensorimotor and in some cases social experiences. They are not fully-fledged images or mental pictures, since they lack particularity and detail: they are abstract or recurrent patterns – tropes, if you will, of space, time, material and action. Examples include “container,” “path,” “force,” “link,” “cycle,” “part-whole,” “up-down,” “center-periphe…
Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism
From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As
The Necessity of Errors
Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to be eradicated. Drawing on the fragmented corpus of writing on error, from Locke to Luxemburg, Adorno to Vaneigem, and covering five key areas from philosophy to political praxis, this wide-ranging account …
Embodied Collective Reflexivity
Most work on reflexivity has focused on individuals exercising their reflexivity through discourse. However, agents have three major aspects (intentionality, causal efficacy and embodiment) and they are fundamentally social. This article examines the possibility of collective reflexivity conducted not just by saying, but also by doing—that is, through their embodiment. By expanding the concept of ‘performatives’ to encompass not just speech acts …
Does critical realism need the concept of three domains of reality? A roundtable
The concept of the three domains of reality is widely used in empirical critical realist research. However, there has been little scrutiny of how the domains are conceptualized and what they contribute to critical realism and how they should be applied in empirical research. This paper involves four arguments. First, Tom Fryer and Cristián Navarrete argue that the three domains of reality are redundant, confusing, and unsupported by Bhaskar’s the…
Theatre Histories
Commemorative drama and Carnival
This chapter considers commemorative drama and Carnival, including instances in which the commemorative and the carnivalesque are combined in the same occasion, from the second century in China through the sixteenth in Europe. It focuses primarily on religious observances that lend themselves to commemorative performances: the Jewish Purim shpil, the Islamic Ta’ziyeh, India’s Ramlila, and the many forms of Christian ritual and drama, designed to …
Peirce's Universal Categories and Critical Realist Ontology
Much of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy hinges on his “universal categories” of Firstness (qualities, potentialities), Secondness (action, otherness) and Thirdness (relationship, rule‐boundedness). Despite their abstractness, the categories have concrete applications and shed light on several critical realist theories, such as its ontological domains, its social ontology and its more nascent semiotics. Using Peirce's categories this way requires b…
Deleuze’s concept of virtuality and critical realist ontology
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (7 works) · Realism (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Critical realism (philosophy of perception (4 works) · Ontology (4 works)