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What kind of questioning is primarily after something other than an answer that can be measured...in cognitive terms? Those interested in the links between modern philosophy and media culture will be impressed by the unusual intellectual clarity and depth with which Weber formulates the...questions that constitute the true challenge to cultural studies today....one of our most important cultural critics and thinkers - MLN

""What kind of questioning is primarily after something other than an answer that can be measured...in cognitive terms? Those interested in the links between modern philosophy and media culture will be impressed by the unusual intellectual clarity and depth with which Weber formulates the...questions that constitute the true challenge to cultural studies today....one of our most important cultural critics and thinkers"" - MLN""

GCGBPWith his customary wit and an acupuncturist's knack for exerting philosophical pressure on the most banal formulae of consumer society (GCyhome theater,GCO GCycasting,GCO GCythe commercial break,GCO GCyStay with us!GCO), Sam Weber outlines a reading of theater as a place, a juncture, never fully inhabited or vacated by its great theorists (as varied as Plato, Sophocles, Kierkegaard, and Benjamin). The transition from GCytheaterGCO to GCymediaGCO is made by an excavation of long-submerged metaphors and a recovery of the many meanings of GCyacting.GCO Sharp, dramatic in its own right, and rich in implications, this book is entirely GCyin character.GCOGC[yen]GCo GCoHaun Saussy, Yale University

With his customary wit and an acupuncturist's knack for exerting philosophical pressure on the most banal formulae of consumer society ('home theater,' 'casting,' 'the commercial break,' 'Stay with us!'), Sam Weber outlines a reading of theater as a place, a juncture, never fully inhabited or vacated by its great theorists (as varied as Plato, Sophocles, Kierkegaard, and Benjamin). The transition from 'theater' to 'media' is made by an excavation of long-submerged metaphors and a recovery of the many meanings of 'acting.' Sharp, dramatic in its own right, and rich in implications, this book is entirely 'in character.' - -- -Haun Saussy Yale University Theatricality as Medium is one of those rare and necessary books that seem-but just seem-to appear out of nowhere, to challenge the habits of thougt and dispel intellectual cliches in the fields of performance and theatre studies. -The Drama Review

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Samuel Weber is Avalon Professor of Comparative Literature at Northwestern University and Director of Northwestern's Paris Program in Critical Theory. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Legend of Freud, Institution and Interpretation, and Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media.

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