All posts from September 2015
Rousseau and the Theatre: Political-Aesthetic Ideals and Practices
A conference organised by Performing Premodernity, 24 -26 August 2015. The starting point for this three-day conference was that Performing Premodernity wanted to emphasize that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ever since his own lifetime, has wrongly been regarded by many as belonging to a long tradition of anti-theatrical thinkers. Numerous theatre scholars have refrained from exploring Rousseau’s theatrical […]
