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Rhapsody for the Theatre
Badiou
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Description for Rhapsody for the Theatre
Hardcover.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781681268
SKU
V9781781681268
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99-3
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
"One of the most important philosophers writing today."
Joan Copjec "A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"
Slavoj A iA ek "An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser."
"New Statesman"
Joan Copjec "A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"
Slavoj A iA ek "An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser."
"New Statesman"