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Etienne Balibar on Althusser's Dramaturgy and the Critique of Ideology
Duke University Press
Published on 8. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8223-6837-3 (ISBN)
Description
Most readers of Louis Althusser first enter his work through his writings on ideology. In an important new essay Etienne Balibar, friend and colleague of Althusser, offers an original reading of Althusser's idea of ideology, drawing on both recently published posthumous writing and Althusser's work on the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Balibar's essay uncovers the intricate workings of interpellation through Althusser's essays on the theater. If debates on dialectical materialism belong to a distant history, Balibar suggests, the question of ideology remains crucial for thinking the present.
The issue includes commentaries on Balibar's essay from five influential scholars who engage critically with Althusser's philosophy: Judith Butler, Banu Bargu, Adi Ophir, Warren Montag, and Bruce Robbins. This issue reanimates Althusser's concept of ideology as an analytic tool for contemporary cultural and political critique.
The issue includes commentaries on Balibar's essay from five influential scholars who engage critically with Althusser's philosophy: Judith Butler, Banu Bargu, Adi Ophir, Warren Montag, and Bruce Robbins. This issue reanimates Althusser's concept of ideology as an analytic tool for contemporary cultural and political critique.
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-6837-3 (9780822368373)
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Persons
Elizabeth Weed is Director Emeritus of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. Ellen Rooney is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Professor of English at Brown University.
Contributors: Etienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Judith Butler, Warren Montag, Adi Ophir, Bruce Robbins, Ellen Rooney, and Elizabeth Weed
Contributors: Etienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Judith Butler, Warren Montag, Adi Ophir, Bruce Robbins, Ellen Rooney, and Elizabeth Weed
Content
Etienne Balibar - Althusser's Dramaturgy and the Critique of IdeologyJudith Butler - Theatrical MachinesWarren Montag - Althusser's Authorless TheaterAdi Ophir - On Linking Machinery and ShowBanu Bargu - Althusser's Materialist Theater: Ideology and Its AporiasBruce Robbins - The Performance of Poverty: On "Althusser's Dramaturgy and the Critique of Ideology"Xiao Liu - Red Detachment of Women: Revolutionary Melodrama and Alternative Socialist ImaginationsSara Cohen Shabot - Dogville; or, On Ambiguity and Oppression: A Beauvoirian Reading