New British Drama of Ideas: Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics in British Big Issue Plays after 2000

英国新观念戏剧：2000年后英国大话剧中的政治、伦理和美学

• 批准号: 272348545
• 负责人: Dr. Ellen Redling
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/272348545?language=en
• 关键词: New; British; Drama; Ideas; Politics

This interdisciplinary post-doctoral project in the field of British literary and cultural studies will analyse a large number of British plays after 2000 which are focused on ideas. These ideas are related to a broad spectrum of current national and global political questions and problems. These very recent plays are different from both earlier dramas of ideas and the Marxist plays from the period of the 1960s to the 1980s since, unlike them, they do not propagate just one possible viewpoint; instead they portray discussions of a large variety of perspectives and solutions. This development is closely connected to new theories of democracy which arose in the wake of the breakdown of the Soviet Union and have particularly grown in number since the beginning of the New Labour government. They mark a departure from a strict opposition between Marxism and liberal democracy and concomitantly entail a greater openness of ideas, which in turn seeks to accommodate a modern multicultural society. Another reason for the special topicality of theories of democracy since the early 2000s can be found in the fact that numerous crises (the military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the dot.com crisis and the global financial crisis) as well as the rise of the new media have induced many citizens to participate more actively in political processes. In the light of these developments the project will consult socio-political theories which disapprove of liberal approaches that solely allow for majority decisions and the free market economy to solve potential conflicts. Firstly, these are recent participatory and deliberative theories such as those of Jürgen Habermas, which are intended to lead to the negotiation of a consensus regarding political questions. Secondly, these theories include communitarian approaches like that of Michael Sandel, which are also aimed at negotiation, but which focus particularly on ethical concerns and the common good. Finally, radical-democratic theories such as those of Jacques Rancière will be included in the discussion. His approach also criticises the liberal state, but, unlike Habermas' and Sandel's theories, it rejects a democracy of consensus, the reason being that an agreement between various perspectives can result in the whitewashing of the fundamental differences between these viewpoints. Aside from political and ethical aspects this project will also explore the special aesthetics of these new dramas of ideas, since they do not simply replicate socio-political discussions that are taking place outside the theatre. The overall aim of this post-doctoral project is to develop both diachronic and synchronic approaches to dramas of ideas after 2000, which will establish some connections to the dramas of ideas from antiquity, but which will first and foremost concentrate on providing a greater understanding of the special aspects of this current and much more open dramatic genre.

这个跨学科的英国文学和文化研究领域的博士后项目将分析2000年后大量的英国戏剧，这些戏剧都集中在思想上。这些想法与当前广泛的国家和全球政治问题和难题有关。这些最近的戏剧与早期的思想戏剧和20世纪60年代至80年代的马克思主义戏剧都不同，因为与它们不同的是，它们不仅仅传播一种可能的观点;相反，它们描绘了各种各样的观点和解决方案的讨论。这一发展与苏联解体后出现的新民主理论密切相关，特别是自新工党政府成立以来，这些理论的数量有所增加。它们标志着马克思主义和自由民主之间严格对立的背离，同时也意味着思想的更大开放，这反过来又寻求适应现代多元文化社会。自2000年代初以来，民主理论特别具有时事性的另一个原因是，许多危机（对伊拉克和阿富汗的军事干预、dot.com危机和全球金融危机）以及新媒体的兴起促使许多公民更积极地参与政治进程。鉴于这些发展，该项目将咨询社会政治理论，这些理论不赞成只允许多数决定和自由市场经济来解决潜在冲突的自由主义方法。首先，这些是最近的参与和审议理论，如尤尔根·哈贝马斯的理论，旨在导致就政治问题达成共识的谈判。其次，这些理论包括迈克尔·桑德尔（Michael Sandel）的社群主义方法，这些方法也旨在谈判，但特别关注伦理问题和共同利益。最后，激进民主理论，如雅克·朗西埃的理论，将被纳入讨论。他的方法也批评自由主义国家，但与哈贝马斯和桑德尔的理论不同，他拒绝共识民主，原因是不同观点之间的一致可能导致粉饰这些观点之间的根本差异。除了政治和伦理方面，该项目还将探索这些新的思想戏剧的特殊美学，因为它们不仅仅是复制剧院外发生的社会政治讨论。这个博士后项目的总体目标是发展2000年后的思想戏剧的历时和共时方法，这将与古代的思想戏剧建立一些联系，但首先将集中于提供对这种当前和更开放的戏剧类型的特殊方面的更好理解。