Badiou / Truong In Praise of Theatre

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8700-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 90 Seiten, E-Book

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou's latest work onthe 'most complete of the arts,' the theatrical stage.This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatrepractitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developedby Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the'Theses on Theatre' and enquires into the status of atheatre that would be adequate to our 'contemporary,market-oriented chaos.'
In a departure from his usual emphasis upon canonical figures ofthe stage such as Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Badiou devotesIn Praise of Theatre largely to a consideration of contemporarypractitioners, including Jan Fabre, Brigitte Jacques and RomeoCastellucci. In addition, the book features an incisive analysis ofthe precarious status of the theatre today, in which Badioudescribes not only the current threats to the theatre from theright, but the far more insidious threat from the left.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badiou, Alain

Truong, Nicolas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Alain Badiou and the untimely stage: translator?s
introduction by Andrew Bielski
1. Defense of an endangered art
2. Theatre and philosophy, story of an old couple
3. Between dance and cinema
4. Political stages
5. The place of the spectator
Translator?s notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alain Badiou is a writer, philosopher and an EmeritusProfessor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Nicolas Truong is a writer and journalist and a regularcontributor to Le Monde
Author1 Alain Badiou is a writer, philosopher and an Emeritus Professorat the École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Author 2 Nicolas Truong is a writer and journalist and a regularcontributor to Le Monde