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by Alain Badiou, علی فردوسی (Translator)

"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.

Genres: Philosophy, Theatre, France

121 pages

First published September 7, 2015

About the author

Alain Badiou, Ph.D., born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School EGS. Alain Badiou was a student at the École Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chair of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Lacan) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.

Trained as a mathematician, Alain Badiou is one of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts. His philosophy seeks to expose and make sense of the potential of radical innovation (revolution, invention, transfiguration) in every situation.

Reviews

[tea · Rating 5 out of 5]

sviđa mi se badjuov stil pisanja i njegova konstantna zapitanost i kritički pogled na svet. a o njegovom širokom znanju iz oblasti drame i pozorišta i da ne pričamo
💕 za ovog čoveka i da nam ponovo dođe u beograd

[Mrm · Rating 2 out of 5]

ترجمه خیلی بدی بود. معادل سازی های افتضاحی داشت، یه جاهایی کلمه هایی ساخته بود که اصلا با سیاق زبان فارسی جور در نمیاد. جمله ها خیلی جاها نامفهوم بودن.

[antoinette :) · Rating 5 out of 5]

trop bien 🤭🤭🤭
vive le théâtre !!!!
voir le theatre d'un côté philosophique est super intéressant ! comprendre de manière théorique cette discipline >>

[Ethan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ideal pra quem está estudando teatro.

[Mills College Library]

792.01 B136 2015

[DAVID · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book and should be read as a counterpoint to _Theatre of the Unimpressed_ by Tannahill.

[A L]

What a cool interview. I liked what he had to say about intermissions/intervals as an impurity in theater, with a similar impurity in philosophy -- and it puts his idea of a current "intervallic" period in world revolution in a different light!