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Teil !

1. Aristotle's Defeat

2. Genre and Drama: The Historical and TheoreticalBackground

Teil II

3. Brecht's Writing against Writing

4. Brecht, Artaud, Wedekind, Eliot: The Absence of the Subject

5. The Theater That Never Was: Georg Büchner and Drama as a Philosophical Experiment

6. Hofmannsthal's Theater of Adaptation

     Adaptation, Interpretaion, Performance

     Hofmannsthal and the Poet's Meaning

     Contingency, Disorder, Performance

     Negativity and the World Theater

     The Paradox of the Actor

     Oedipus and the Allegory of Acting

     The Paradox of the Author

      Hofmannsthal's Retreat

7. Diderot, Shaw, Beckett, and the Meaning of Plays

8. Performance and the Exposure of Hermeneutics

9. Robert Wilson and the Work as an Empty Wavelength for Its Own Public Discussion