Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-vii

List of illustrations

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Introduction: The horizon of the aesthetic

pp 1-30

Part I - The aesthetic exception

pp 31-32

1 - The paradox of the aesthetic exception

pp 33-47

2 - Crossing the threshold

pp 48-68

3 - The institution of art: Critical and theoretical reflections

pp 69-78

Part II - Political art after the communicative turn

pp 79-80

1 - The classical debate revisited: Sartre, Brecht, Adorno

pp 81-95

2 - Art of the communicative turn: Habermas and the political

pp 96-102

3 - What is the proper way to display a US flag?: The work of ‘dissensual speech’ in art

pp 103-110

Part III - Taxonomy of the political theatre

pp 111-114

1 - Foundational problems and problems of foundation

pp 115-132

2 - Displacement effects: Althusser’s ‘Brecht’ and the theatre of the conjuncture

pp 133-151

3 - Activist theatre of the conjuncture: Janam and the politics of the street theatre in India

pp 152-172

4 - The ‘closure’ of the political theatre (and the critique of postdramatic reason)

pp 173-191

5 - The political theatre ‘redefined’

pp 192-199

6 - The theatre of the planetary conjuncture: Milo Rau’s Congo Tribunal

pp 200-220

7 - On taxonomic strategies

pp 221-225

Notes

pp 226-264

Index

pp 265-275