The Cartesian mind/body split in Lehmann's postdramatic theatre : doubting de-dramatic theatre in light of social cognition

Roč.29,č.1(2026)
Puppetry with(out) Classics

Abstrakt
Postdramatic theatre, celebrating bodily physicality and asemiotic sensations, declares as aesthetically superior de-dramatic theatre performance. However, when provoked in relation to Lehmann's eleven stylistic traits, this performance trend, rather belonging to the category of the 'spectacle', is found to enact anew the Cartesian mind/body split, establishing it as its fiction. In light of ecology and phenomenology of perception, as well as theories of social cognition, its theory is revealed as a normalising aesthetic proposal, undermining social interaction and cognition, which constitute the basis both of social life and of theatre.

Klíčová slova:
theatre performance; drama; fiction; pretend-play; postdramatic theatre; semiosis; Cartesian mind/body split; social cognition; one-sided 'pseudo' interaction

Stránky:
177–205
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