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Freddie Rokem - Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance - 9780804763493 - V9780804763493
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Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance

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Description for Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance Hardback. This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 454.

The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking at four direct encounters between philosophers and thespians, beginning with Socrates, Agathon, and Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium and ending with a discussion between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht about a short text by Franz Kafka. Rokem also examines in detail Hamlet's complex and tragic split identity as both philosopher and thespian, as well as the intense correspondence between Friedrich Nietzsche and August Strindberg. His investigations—which move between the fictional and the historical—culminate ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804763493
SKU
V9780804763493
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Ref
99-15

About Freddie Rokem
Freddie Rokem, author of the prizewinning Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre, is the Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th and 20th-Century Art at Tel Aviv University.

Reviews for Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance
"This book, by theater historian and preformance theorist Freddie Rokem, makes a significant contribution to both fields . . . Rokem has crafted an enaging and vigorous study of the relationship between theater and philosophy that does as Horace recommended theater do, instruct and delight."
Monica Prendergast
Comparative Literature Studies
"Philosophers and Thespians is a cultural-studies discourse ... Read more

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