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Rhapsody for the Theatre

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels (Introduction by)Publish date:2013-09-10Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681251ISBN-10:1781681252UPC:9781781681251Book Category:Philosophy, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Theater, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC3XJSJCRJ
For Alain Badiou, theatre--unlike cinema--is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the excessive power of the state. This explains why the history of theatre has always been inseparable from a history of state repression and censorship.

This definitive collection includes not only Badiou's pamphlet Rhapsody for the Theatre but also essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, on the political destiny of contemporary theatre, and on Badiou's own work as a playwright, as author of the Ahmed Tetralogy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681251ISBN-10:1781681252UPC:9781781681251Book Category:Philosophy, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Theater, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC3XJSJCRJ
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject; Being and Event; Manifesto for Philosophy; and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy; Ethics; Metapolitics; Polemics; The Communist Hypothesis; Five Lessons on Wagner; and Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy.

Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of Badiou and Politics; Marx and Freud in Latin America; and The Actuality of Communism. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: Theory of the Subject; Can Politics Be Thought?; and What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan. He currently serves as the General Editor of Diacritics.
Publisher: Verso

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