Rancière and Performance - (Performance Philosophy) by Nic Fryer & Colette Conroy (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This is the first collection on Rancière, a key thinker of political philosophy and aesthetics, which deals explicitly with the implications of his thought on theatre and performance studies.
- About the Author: Colette Conroy is director of the Institute of Arts, University of Cumbria, UK.
- 254 Pages
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
- Series Name: Performance Philosophy
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About the Book
This is the first collection on Rancière, a key thinker of political philosophy and aesthetics, which deals explicitly with the implications of his thought on theatre and performance studies.Book Synopsis
This is the first collection on Rancière, a key thinker of political philosophy and aesthetics, which deals explicitly with the implications of his thought on theatre and performance studies.Review Quotes
Although a decade has passed since the English publication of the Emancipated Spectator, Rancière's thought has lost none of its power to unsettle preconceptions regarding art and politics. Fryer and Conroy's timely volume proves the point. Its judicious selection of essays probe the potentialities and - yes - frustrations for theatre and performance scholars engaging with the dissensus at the heart of Rancière's project.
This timely collection of new essays provides a fascinating survey of the work of Jacques Rancière and its impact on cutting-edge thinking in theatre and performance studies. In a series of provocative and inspiring engagements, theatre and performance are offered here as sites for destabilising the hierarchies of expertise and experience, exploding myths of the passive spectator, and framing some of the most urgent political questions of our time.
About the Author
Colette Conroy is director of the Institute of Arts, University of Cumbria, UK.
Nic Fryer is senior lecturer and course leader of the MA in performing arts at Bucks New University and a director.
