My thesis explores the relation of philosophy and theatre that originates in a speech that the German philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels delivered in 2009 at the National Sun Yat-sen University. The title of the speech is Theatre as Scene of Otherness, in which Waldenfels applies the key notion of his philosophy ¡V Othernesss ¡V to an analysis of theatre. Based on his work The Question of Otherness I first explore his viewpoints of otherness from the experience of Otherness, the question of violence to the dimension of time and body in relation to Otherness. In Waldenfels¡¦ view whenever we effort to get hold of Otherness, the latter just flees us. As a result we can never really get the full knowledge of Otherness. Yet, so long as we cannot but face the challenge of Otherness all the time, the theatre provides us with an opportunity to get a glance at what Otherness is all about. The theatre offers us so to speak a possibility to encounter what is not displayable. In sum, theatre demonstrates itself as a field of Otherness. According to Waldenfels, as long as the theatre is full of experimental traits, it can be hardly generalized. I thus endeavor to explore the Brutal Theatre of Artaud on the basis of Waldenfels¡¦ understanding of theatre. A brief explanation on the local experimental theatre is also illustrated in connection to the notion of Otherness.
Keywords: Otherness, theatre, scene, violence, time, body
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0709111-185307 |
| Date | 09 July 2011 |
| Creators | HUANG, YU-SHAN |
| Contributors | Mathias Obert, CHUNG-CHI YU, WAN-I YANG |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0709111-185307 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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