Derrida | Benjamin 1st ed.

Author

• Schad, John

Additional Author(s)

• Dalmasso, Fred

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030498078

Series

Subject(s)

• BENJAMIN, WALTER, 1892-1940
• DERRIDA, JACQUES
• PERFORMING ARTS

Notes

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Abstract

Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or Benjamin

Cue Derrida| Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways – above all, in the way that the central philosophical figure is displaced, or not quite where or when we would expect to find them. In Derrida’s case, it is Oxford in 1968; in Benjamin’s case, it is somewhere (or nowhere) near London in 1948. These, then, are plays in which the philosopher is exiled, or elsewhere – not quite himself.

This a volume for anyone with an eye or ear for where theatre or performance meets philosophy – students, scholars, readers, actors.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (ix, 197 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. "The strangest of all things" - an introduction / John Schad --
2. Derrida - a play / Fred Dalmasso and John Schad --
3. Benjamin - a play / John Schad --
4. "Barely a film" - a conclusion / Fred Dalmasso.

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00760/21	822.92080351 Sch D	Online !	Available