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- The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
summary
Nietzsche's love affair with the theater was among the most profound and prolonged intellectual engagements of his life, but his transformational role in the history of the modern stage has yet to be explored. In this pathbreaking account, David Kornhaber vividly shows how Nietzsche reimagined the theatrical event as a site of philosophical invention that is at once ancestor, antagonist, and handmaiden to the discipline of philosophy itself. August Strindberg, George Bernard Shaw, and Eugene O'Neill— seminal figures in the modern drama's evolution and avowed Nietzscheans all—came away from their encounters with Nietzsche's writings with an impassioned belief in the philosophical potential of the live theatrical event, coupled with a reestimation of the dramatist's power to shape that event in collaboration with the actor. In these playwrights' reactions to and adaptations of Nietzsche's radical rethinking of the stage lay the beginnings of a new direction in modern theater and dramatic literature.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-14
- Part I. Nietzsche and the Theater
- pp. 15-16
- Chapter 1. Zukunftstheater!
- pp. 17-42
- Part II. The Theater and Nietzsche
- pp. 91-92
- Chapter 4. Ecce Strindberg
- pp. 93-116
- Chapter 5. The Genealogy of Shaw
- pp. 117-136
- Chapter 6. Thus Spake O’Neill
- pp. 137-158
- Epilogue: Centaurs
- pp. 159-164
- A Note on Translations
- pp. 215-216
- Bibliography
- pp. 217-232
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810132627
Related ISBN(s)
9780810132603, 9780810132610
MARC Record
OCLC
948632132
Pages
250
Launched on MUSE
2016-05-12
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016