Foucaults Theatres

This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy 'theatrically', contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought.

List of contents

Introduction: theatre, performance, Foucault - Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman
1 Foucault's philosophical theatres - Mark D. Jordan
2 The dramas of knowledge: Foucault's genealogical theatre of truth - Aline Wiame
3 Foucault live! 'A Voice That Still Eludes the Tomb of the Text...' - Magnolia Pauker
4 Foucault, Oedipus, Négritude - Kélina Gotman
5 Foucault's critical dramaturgies - Mark Robson
6 Heterotopia and the mapping of unreal spaces on stage - Joanne Tompkins
7 Foucault and Shakespeare: the theatre of madness - Stuart Elden
8 Philosophical phantasms: 'the Platonic differential' and 'Zarathustra's laughter' - Mischa Twitchin
9 Cage and Foucault: musical timekeeping and the security state - Steve Potter
10 Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: reassessed - Tracey Nicholls
11 Sightlines: Foucault and Naturalist theatre - Dan Rebellato
12 Theatre of poverty: popular illegalism on the nineteenth century stage - Tony Fisher
13 The philosophical scene: Foucault interviewed by Moriaki Watanabe - translated by Robert Bononno
14 After words, afterwards: teaching Foucault - Ann Pellegrini
Index

About the author

Tony Fisher is Reader in Theatre and Philosophy and Associate Director of Research at the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama, University of London

Kélina Gotman is Senior Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies at King's College London and Hölderlin Guest Professor in Comparative Dramaturgy at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt'

Summary

This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy ‘theatrically’, contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Tony Fisher, Tony Gotman Fisher
• Assisted by: Tony Fisher (Editor), Fisher Tony (Editor), Kelina Gotman (Editor), Kélina Gotman (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781526132062
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3206-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre: Theory - Practice - P; Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production