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Performing Antagonism : Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy /

This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street. Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre and perf...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Fisher, Tony; Katsouraki, Eve
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Performance Philosophy
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching
Performing Arts
Modern philosophy
Political philosophy
Political sociology
Cultural and Media Studies
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95100-0
Summary: This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street. Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre and performance practitioners. However, a decade of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the eruption of new social movements around the world, the growth of anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation struggles, the upsurge of protests against the blockades of neoliberalism, and the rising tide of dis
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XV,292pages).
ISBN: 9781349951000
Index Number: PN1560
CLC: J80-05
Contents: 1.Introduction; Tony Fisher -- 2. Tragedy s Philosophy; Simon Critchley -- 3. Tragedy; Olga Taxidou -- 4. Parterre; Broderick D.V. Chow -- 5. An Actor, but in Life ; Peter M Boenisch -- 6. Is this What Democracy Looks Like?; Theron Schmidt -- 7. Performing Protest; Pollyanna Ruiz -- 8. A Life Not Worth Living ; Eve Katsouraki -- 9. Collective Horizons; Gigi Argyropoulou -- 10. On the Performance of Dissensual Speech ; Tony Fisher -- 11. Remote Spectating; Fred Dalmasso -- 12. Antagonising the Limits of Critique; Rachel Cockburn -- 13. The Political Dimension of Dance; Goran Petrovi -Lotina -

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