Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques - Softcover

Spolin, Viola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810140004 ISBN 13: 9780810140004

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1983

Synopsis

As a theatre text the book has been ranked with the works of Stanislavski and Artaud, and it has inspired the work of actors, directors, and writers in theatre, television, and film. In addition to its impact on the theatre, the book has had wide influence in the fields of education, mental health, psychology, and even ecology, as games bring the players closer to their individual nature, to their fellow players, and to the world they share.

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About the Author

RUDOLF BERNET is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Leuven in Belgium and former director of the Husserl Archives. He has been a visiting professor at the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, the University of Copenhagen, Boston College, the Sapienza University of Rome, Stony Brook University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, and Peking University. He is the editor of Edmund Husserl's Texte zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins (The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness) and Die Bernauer Manuskripte über das Zeitbewusstsein (The Bernau Manuscripts on Time-Consciousness), the coauthor of An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology, and the author of La vie du sujet: Recherches sur l'interprétation de Husserl dans la phénoménologie (The Life of the Subject: Research on Husserl's Interpretation of Phenomenology) and Conscience et existence: Perspectives phénoménologiques (Consciousness and Existence: Phenomenological Perspectives).

Review

"This unique book is sure to be a classic. Bernet's masterful study unearths remarkably deep connections between psychoanalytic concepts of drive and desire, and philosophical problems of force, movement, agency, negativity and passivity, offering extraordinary insights into what drives us in our relations to each other and nature." --David Morris, author of Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology
"Clear and erudite, challenging and exciting, this work is a literal tour de force. The aim of Rudolf Bernet's Force, Drive, Desire is nothing less than a renewal of both philosophy and psychoanalysis by way of a powerful reconstruction of the concepts of drive and desire as fundamental to each." --James Dodd, author of Phenomenology, Architecture, and the Built World

"Rudolf Bernet's Force, Drive, Desire is a highly welcome contribution to contemporary philosophy. Bernet offers an impressive, multifaceted account of the fundamental forces that move human beings, individually and collectively. This is crucial not just to phenomenology and psychoanalysis but also to political philosophy, ontology, and metaphysics." --Sara Heinämaa, author of Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810140004
• ISBN 13: 9780810140004
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 396