Detailed Information on Publication Record
2021
Rethinking Drama in the Crisis of Deliberative Communication : The Radical Theory of Martin Buber and Gustav Landauer
MOTAL, JanBasic information
Original name
Rethinking Drama in the Crisis of Deliberative Communication : The Radical Theory of Martin Buber and Gustav Landauer
Authors
MOTAL, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Slovenské divadlo : časopis Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2021, 0037-699X
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
60403 Performing arts studies
Country of publisher
Slovakia
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/21:00122517
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
Keywords in English
drama; theatre; post-politics; stage design; actor; poetry; communication
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 28/3/2022 13:12, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
Abstract
V originále
The article presents the basic elements of Gustav Landauer’s and Martin Buber’s thinking on theatre and drama. It shows they are rooted in the late 19th-century critique of language (Sprachkritik), trying to overcome the representational function of language. The author searches for shared elements in both thinkers’ philosophies: an integral idea of human personality (inner necessity), spirituality as a superpersonal unity tending towards a communitarian vision of the people, and so on. While Buber emphasizes the unity of opposites, or the union of the characters in the drama while preserving their differences, Landauer focuses on achieving unity with the ancestors and the cosmos through an inner immersion. Both direct their theory of drama towards political meaning. This paper proposes that their concept of drama can be used to rethink communication, transcending the post-politics of consensus, as it preserves difference in unity.