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“David Kornhaber’s book is a brilliant and original study of Nietzsche’s debt to theater and vice versa. In a clear and engaging style, Kornhaber explores a dialogue between philosophy and theater history.” —Matthew Wilson Smith, author of The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace and editor of Georg Büchner: The Major Works
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 allcame 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. Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2009. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780810132603