A new aletheia or yet another raising of the curtain: 9th Congress on Contemporary Philosophical Thought: Philosophy and Theatre (Asturian Society of Philosophy)

Abstract

If we attend to the statements of great playwrights about theatre, it is easy to conclude that this field teems with ideas worthy of thought. The performing arts — addressed by authors such as Badiou, Deleuze, or Nietzsche (without forgetting Aristotle) — are perhaps among the least analysed and yet most pervasive of artistic forms… Is not this maelstrom of ideas surrounding the performing arts enough to invite us to analyse and rethink, to see and understand a little more deeply, the artistic form of expression closest to the human being?

The articles presented here seek to create a space in the theatrical style: place, thought, action, conviviality… Thus, within a single volume, diverse perspectives on the theatrical are brought together. This volume emerges with the aspiration that these words may rise up and generate an event capable of constructing a habitable space-time; a time of its own that leaves a milestone in our historical becoming and that, following Alain Badiou, allows us to sense a connection between the ontological function of theatre and that of art.