Martin Puchner

The Drama of Ideas

Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas. Challenging both views, The Drama of Ideas shows that theater and philosophy have been crucially intertwined from the start.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780199351961
• ISBN-10: 0199351961
• Artikelnr.: 39100103

Autorenporträt

Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos and the Avant-Gardes and Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Poetics of the Platonic Dialogue
1. Plato, Dramatist
2. Tragedy, Comedy, Satyr Play
3. Plato's Dramaturgy
II. A Brief History of the Socrates Play
1. Socrates on Stage
2. The Death of Socrates
3. The Comic Stage Philosopher
III. The Drama of Ideas
1. August Strindberg and Georg Kaiser
2. Oscar Wilde
3. George Bernard Shaw
4. Luigi Pirandello
5. Bertolt Brecht
6. Tom Stoppard
IV. Dramatic Philosophy
1. Søren Kierkegaard
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus
4. Kenneth Burke
5. Gilles Deleuze
V. The New Platonists
1. Iris Murdoch
2. Martha Nussbaum
3. Alain Badiou
Epilogue: Dramatic Platonism
Appendix 1: Socrates Titles
Appendix 2: Charting the Socrates Play
Index