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OverviewMost philosophy makes little mention of the theater except to denounce it as a place of illusion and moral decay. The theater has tended to respond in kind by steering away from philosophy, driven by the notion that theater consists of actions, not ideas. The Drama of Ideas argues that despite this mutual evasion, the histories of philosophy and theater have in fact been crucially intertwined. Appointing Plato as a hinge figure, Puchner traces this alternative tradition as well as recounting the long-standing philosophical register in drama and philosophy's more recent theatrical shift. Moving from a consideration of Plato as a dramatist to those Renaissance playwrights who drew on Plato's chief character, Socrates, Puchner articulates an alternative history of the theater which places philosophy front and center. He believes that modern drama should be understood as Platonic, rather than anti-Aristotelian, as it is often labeled. When Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, August Strindberg, Luigi Pirandello, Georg Kaiser and Bertolt Brecht are contextualized in light of this alternative perspective, they emerge as major contributors to a drama of ideas. Philosophy underwent a corresponding theatrical shift in the modern era, most importantly through the work of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus. More recently, Kenneth Burke and Gilles Deleuze have used a theatrical models perspective through which to write the history of philosophy, while contemporary descendants of Plato's dramatic imagination include Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum and Alain Badiou. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martin PuchnerPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.536kg ISBN: 9780199730322ISBN 10: 0199730326 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 29 April 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<br> The Drama of Ideas contains a tightly woven and persuasive argument for rescuing a Platonic tradition of interactions between two disciplines: theatre and philosophy. When this unique form of writing is examined within a theatrical context, as drama, a highly innovative form of writing emerges where abstract ideas, on the one hand, and the concreteness of character and scene, on the other, are viewed in a constantly emerging, dynamic and creative interaction with each other. Puchner has produced an ambitious and innovative project. -Freddie Rokem, author of Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance<br><p><br> Martin Puchner productively challenges a core assumption of Western theatre scholarship: that the theatrical and literary theatre tradition derives in large part from Aristotle; and also its corollary: that from Aristotle's rival, Plato, comes a continuing tradition of anti-theatrical prejudice. The Drama of Ideas offers important new insights into the theory and pract <br> The Drama of Ideas contains a tightly woven and persuasive argument for rescuing a Platonic tradition of interactions between two disciplines: theatre and philosophy. When this unique form of writing is examined within a theatrical context, as drama, a highly innovative form of writing emerges where abstract ideas, on the one hand, and the concreteness of character and scene, on the other, are viewed in a constantly emerging, dynamic and creative interaction with each other. Puchner has produced an ambitious and innovative project. -Freddie Rokem, author of Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance <br> Martin Puchner productively challenges a core assumption of Western theatre scholarship: that the theatrical and literary theatre tradition derives in large part from Aristotle; and also its corollary: that from Aristotle's rival, Plato, comes a continuing tradition of anti-theatrical prejudice. The Drama of Ideas offers important new insights into the theory and practic The Drama of Ideas contains a tightly woven and persuasive argument for rescuing a Platonic tradition of interactions between two disciplines: theatre and philosophy. When this unique form of writing is examined within a theatrical context, as drama, a highly innovative form of writing emerges where abstract ideas, on the one hand, and the concreteness of character and scene, on the other, are viewed in a constantly emerging, dynamic and creative interaction with each other. Puchner has produced an ambitious and innovative project. Freddie Rokem, author of Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance Author InformationMartin Puchner holds the H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he also serves as the co-chair of the Theatre Ph.D. program. In addition to serving as the coeditor to The Norton Anthology of Drama, he is the author of Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos and the Avant-Gardes (Princeton UP, 2006) and Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002). His essays have appeared in Bookforum, The London Review of Books and n+1. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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