CHAPTER FIVE. The Theater That Never Was: Georg Buchner and Drama as a Philosophical Experiment

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One
6. CHAPTER ONE. Aristotle's Defeat 13
7. CHAPTER TWO. Genre and Drama: The Historical and Theoretical Background 27
8. Part Two
9. CHAPTER THREE. Brecht's Writing against Writing 57
10. CHAPTER FOUR. Brecht, Artaud, Wedekind, Eliot: The Absence of the Subject 76
11. CHAPTER FIVE. The Theater That Never Was: Georg Buchner and Drama as a Philosophical Experiment 96
12. CHAPTER SIX. Hofmannsthal's Theater of Adaptation 115
13. CHAPTER SEVEN. Diderot, Shaw, Beckett, and the Meaning of Plays 136
14. CHAPTER EIGHT. Performance and the Exposure of Hermeneutics 168
15. CHAPTER NINE. Robert Wilson and the Work as an Empty Wavelength for Its Own Public Discussion 193
16. Conclusion 219
17. APPENDIX. How Buchner Uses and Conceives of Thomas Paine (Payne) in Dantons Tod 223
18. NOTES 227
19. Index 239