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Slovak Theatre as a European Entity, strany: 13-20 Full text
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Publishers: Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theatre and Film Research, VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Book type: edited book
Published: 13. 6. 2022
Edition year: 2018
Pages: 214
Language: English
ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (print), ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (online)
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In: Theatre as a Value-based Discourse Slovak Theatre and Contemporary European Theatre Culture: Conference Proceedings from the International Scientific Conference 5th and 6th of October 2017 Bratislava, Slovakia
Michal Babiak
From Mirrors to Kaleidoscopes: The Possibilities of Shaping Value-based Discourse in a World of Relative Values
This contribution reflects on the possibility of setting up value-based criteria, as well as evaluation itself, in a postmodern context. Drawing on the theses of Walter Benjamin, the contribution points out the loss of the auratic dimension of art and theatre in the postmodern context as well as the loss of modernist engagement. It questions Francis Fukuyama’s thesis about “the end of history” and reflects on current forms of theatre practice that contain residues of, or a potential return to, a modernist programme. The contribution leaves open the question of how much the departure points of postmodernist poetics have been exhausted today, and/or whether one could speak of a return once again to the idea-based departure points of modernism.
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Pages: 21 - 28
Language: anglický
Edition year: 2018
Keywords:
modernism, postmodernism, Walter Benjamin, Francis Fukuyama, “end of history”, values, evaluation, engagement
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