Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage 9780823298419, 0823298418

Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public presentations at

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Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage
9780823298419, 0823298418

Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public presentations at

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Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in t

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Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicizati

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Behind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engi

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Presents a careful analysis of the actor in juxtaposition with his art as written by Frances Anne Kemble, who was renown

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Why are public identities so predictably, and often so radically, different from identities that flourish in realms of c

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In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the

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Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies: Euripides appears repea

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In the absence of the stage directions employed by their modern equivalents, ancient playwrights were obliged to '&

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In today’s theatre, productions of plays that originated in another language are frequently distinguished by two charact

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