Rhapsody for the Theatre by Badiou, Alain

Rhapsody for the Theatre (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781781681268)

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Rhapsody for the Theatre by Badiou, Alain

Rhapsody for the Theatre

$95.00
Rhapsody for the Theatre by Badiou, Alain

Rhapsody for the Theatre

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Alain Badiou
ISBN-10: 1781681260
ISBN-13: 9781781681268
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2013
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.74w x 0.64d
By Alain Badiou
By Alain Badiou
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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.

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