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Rhapsody For The Theatre
Badiou
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For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived. It is, of all the arts, the most closely related to politics: both depend on a limited number of texts or statements, which are collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants who test the limits of the structure inn which they are confined, be it the medium of drama or the nation-state. For this reason, the history of theatre is inseparable from the history of state repression and censorship.
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For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived. It is, of all the arts, the most closely related to politics: both depend on a limited number of texts or statements, which are collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants who test the limits of the structure inn which they are confined, be it the medium of drama or the nation-state. For this reason, the history of theatre is inseparable from the history of state repression and censorship.
This definitive collection of Badiou's work ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Verso
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781681251
SKU
V9781781681251
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About Badiou
Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.
Reviews for Rhapsody For The Theatre
A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!
Slavoj Zizek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
New Statesman
Badiou has been an intellectual hero of France's anti-capitalist left since the Paris street protests of 1968.
BBC HARDtalk
Important chapters in what [Badiou] has called inaesthetics, philosophy's attempt to think the truth ... Read more
Slavoj Zizek An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.
New Statesman
Badiou has been an intellectual hero of France's anti-capitalist left since the Paris street protests of 1968.
BBC HARDtalk
Important chapters in what [Badiou] has called inaesthetics, philosophy's attempt to think the truth ... Read more