ISBN:
9781509518166
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Parallel Title:
Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947 - The drama of social life
DDC:
306.4/848
Keywords:
Theater and society - Philosophy
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Theater and society Philosophy
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Political science Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Moderne
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Gesellschaftsleben
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Politischer Wandel
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Theater
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Kultursoziologie
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Soziologische Theorie
Abstract:
Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A New Theory of Modernity from Ritual to Performance -- The Idea of a Cultural Sociology -- The Cultural Pragmatics of Social Performance -- Notes -- 1 Seizing the Stage: Mao, MLK, and Black Lives Matter Today -- Dramatic Radicalism in Twentieth-Century China -- Civil Rights Protest in Mid-Twentieth-Century America: A New Social Actor -- "Black Lives Matter" in Twenty-first-Century America -- Notes -- 2 Revolutionary Performance in Egypt: The 2011 Uprising -- Dreaming Civil Society -- Cultural Background: Binary Moral Classifications -- Narratives of National Decline and Salvation -- The Script and the Carrier Group -- Struggle and Mise-en-Scène -- Repressive Counter-Performances -- The Moment and the Place -- The Sense of an Ending -- Of Power Physical, Interpretive, and Global -- The Global Civil Sphere -- The Army -- Notes -- 3 Political Performance in the US: Obama's 2012 Re-Election -- Obama Character in Poetry and Prose -- The Dramatization of Consciousness -- Notes -- 4 Dramatic Intellectuals -- Reflecting Ideas: Sociology of Culture -- Performing Ideas: Cultural Sociology -- Intellectual Heroes of the American Left -- Intellectual Heroes of the European Left (1): Live Performance -- Intellectual Heroes of the European Left (2): Post-Life Performance -- Heroine of the American Right -- Hero of the Third World -- Notes -- 5 Social Theory and the Theatrical Avant-Garde -- Defusion and the Two Avant-Gardes -- Refusion and Performance Studies -- How Resistance to Defusion Generates the Elements of Theatrical Performance -- Film and other Arts -- Notes -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
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