Ebook: Rhapsody For the Theatre

For Alain Badiou, theatre'unlike cinema'is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of texts or statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the excessive power of the state. This explains why the history of theatre has always been inseparable from a history of state repression and censorship. This definitive collection includes not only Badiou's pamphlet Rhapsody for the Theatre but also essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, on the political destiny of contemporary theatre, and on Badiou's own work as a playwright, as author of the Ahmed Tetralogy.;Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction by Bruno Bosteels; 1. Rhapsody for the Theatre: A Short Philosophical Treatise; 2. Theatre and Philosophy; 3. The Political Destiny of Theatre Yesterday and Today; 4. Notes on Jean-Paul Sartreâ#x80;#x99;s The Condemned of Altona; 5. The Ahmed Tetralogy; 6. Three Questions to the Author