In Praise of Theatre - Couverture souple

Badiou, Alain

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745686974 ISBN 13 : 9780745686974

Editeur : Polity Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the Theses on Theatre and enquires into the status of a theatre that would be adequate to our contemporary, market–oriented chaos.

In a departure from his usual emphasis upon canonical figures of the stage such as Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Badiou devotes In Praise of Theatre largely to a consideration of contemporary practitioners, including Jan Fabre, Brigitte Jacques and Romeo Castellucci. In addition, the book features an incisive analysis of the precarious status of the theatre today, in which Badiou describes not only the current threats to the theatre from the right, but the far more insidious threat from the left.

Revue de presse :

"A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!"
Slavoj i ek

"Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear–sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and universality back on the agenda."
Terry Eagleton

"One of the most important philosophers writing today."

Joan Copjec

"An heir to Jean–Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser."
New Statesman

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745686974
• ISBN 13: 9780745686974
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90