Martin Puchner

The Drama of Ideas (eBook, ePUB)

Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Philosophy and theater have often defined themselves in contrast to each other, sharing a mutual antipathy that manifests in a critical evasion. And yet the histories of philosophy and theater have in fact been crucially intertwined. Appointing Plato as a hinge figure, Puchner traces the long-standing philosophical register in drama and philosophy's more recent theatrical shift. The Drama of Ideas provides a broad, persuasive account of this alternative theatrical tradition, working his way from Plato to the Renaissance to Martha Nussbaum today, while dwelling most forcefully on the modern drama of Wilde, Shaw, Pirandello, and others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190453411
• Artikelnr.: 42726995

Autorenporträt

Martin Puchner holds the H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Stage Fright and Poetry of the Revolution, which was awarded the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize. He is also the co-editor of the Norton Anthology of 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