Staging history
Subtitle: Brecht's social concepts of ideology
By: Astrid Oesmann
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781423743927
Subjects: DRAMA; Criticism and interpretation; Continental European; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Brecht and theory. Realism and reversed perception ; Art as the speaker of history ; Natural history ; Mimetic activities; title: Prehistories. The theatrical destruction of subjectivity ; The unorganized material ; Instincts and transformations; title: Man between material and social order. Material against identity: Mann ist Mann ; Brecht's concept of the public sphere ; The captured material (exploitation/imploitation) ; Political distinctions; title: Revolution: change and persistence. The teaching plays: brecht's theory of poverty ; Social space and human standing ; Einverständnis: consensus in crisis ; Subject bound/thought unbound ; Defacement and death; title: Brecht's archaeology of knowledge. The genealogy of terror ; Memory and morality ; Body in time: Haltung ; Thought in time: Lehre.