Philosophers and thespians
Subtitle: thinking performance
By: Freddie Rokem.
Series: Cultural memory in the present; Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804763493; 9780804763509
Subjects: Theater and philosophy; Drama -- Technique
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Encounters. The first encounter : Plato's symposium; title: "Who's there?" : Hamlet as philosopher and thespian; title: Transformations of the self : the Nietzsche/Strindberg correspondence; title: Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht in conversation about Franz Kafka. Constellations. Accidents and catastrophes : performative agendas; title: Wishes, promises and threats : the performative storytelling of Walter Benjamin.