Fisher The aesthetic exception

Essays on art, theatre, and politics
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7017-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

The aesthetic exception critically re-evaluates the relation between art and politics by challenging longstanding assumptions surrounding political ‘effect’ in art and the problem of art’s autonomous status. Drawing on examples from visual art and theatre, it offers a new approach based on a conjunctural understanding of how art becomes political.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The horizon of the aesthetic

Part I The aesthetic exception
1 The paradox of the aesthetic exception
2 Crossing the threshold
3 The institution of art: critical and theoretical reflections

Part II Political art after the communicative turn
4 The classical debate revisited: Sartre, Brecht, Adorno
5 Art of the communicative turn: Habermas and the political
6 What is the proper way to display a US flag? – the work of
“dissensual speech” in art

Part III Taxonomy of the political theatre
7 Foundational problems and problems of foundation
8 Displacement effects: Althusser’s “Brecht” and the theatre
of the conjuncture
9 Activist theatre of the conjuncture: the case of Janam and the
street theatre in India
10 The “closure” of the political theatre and the critique
of post-dramatic reason
11 The political theatre redefined
12 The theatre of the planetary conjuncture: Milo Rau’s
Congo Tribunal
13 On taxonomic strategies
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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