Books like Postdramatic Theatre
12 books with a reading profile close to Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann. Deep, outward-looking and open-ended; a demanding read.
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The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage
by David Lowenthal, Kenneth Olwig
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
This book examines the persistent conceptual divide between natural and cultural heritage, arguing that these categories are defined by a viewer’s intellectual and geographical location.
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The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
Guy Debord analyzes the shift from a world of direct living to a landscape of mere representation.
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The Construction of Social Reality
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
John Searle details how human beings transform physical objects into institutional facts through collective intentionality.
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Philosophy in a Time of Terror
by Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
This volume documents individual dialogues between Giovanna Borradori and philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida conducted shortly after the September 11 attacks.
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The Indivisible Remainder
by Slavoj Zizek
Also deep and open-ended · academic, dense
Slavoj Zizek positions F.W.J.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Also deep · academic, dense
Thomas Kuhn challenges the timeline of linear scientific progress, arguing instead that science operates through distinct cycles.
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The Music of J. S. Bach
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
This volume brings together nine scholars to examine the technical construction and historical performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s instrumental music.
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The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Also deep and open-ended · academic, dense
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle provides a technical examination of the Stagirite’s surviving corpus, emphasizing the integration of philological precision with philosophical analysis.
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Modernism's Other Work
Also deep and outward-looking · academic, dense
Lisa Siraganian argues that the formalist detachment of high modernism serves as a laboratory for theorizing political agency and individual liberty.
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Living in the End Times
by Slavoj Žižek
Also deep and open-ended · academic, dense
Slavoj Žižek uses Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—to categorize the global response to what he identifies as the terminal crisis of contemporary capital…
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Also deep and open-ended · academic, dense
Michel Foucault challenges the repressive hypothesis, which argues that Western society has silenced talk of sex since the Victorian era.
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