CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Seprődi, Attila |
|---|---|
| Title | And the Voice said, let the Public be made! A True Report on the Genesis of the Public as Cultural Form and as Social Being, Illustrated with Scenes of a Culture War between a Theater and its Public |
| Summary | The questions posed by this thesis refer to the public-ness of the theater and the nature of its public. Its primary stake on the level of theory is to raise the problem of the public in a way that goes beyond what the Author considers the limitations of current sociological and political approaches. In this Report, the Reader will find an analysis of the public as a cultural form and an explanation of the grounds on which public discourse may claim authority and political force. In addition, the Author will discuss publics as more or less ephemeral and unstable social entities that come into being around a cause, crystallize around matters of concern and live their ghostly life up until the attention of their members lasts. The theoretical considerations of the treatise will be given flesh by the analysis of a debate that stirred up the spirits around the Hungarian State Theater in Cluj in the year 2001. The works and deeds of this public spirit will be examined in detail, judgment on their nature and character being left on the part of the idle Reader. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis; Zentai, Violetta |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/seprodi_attila.pdf |
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