Austerity and the Public Role of Drama: Performing Lives-In-Common

by Victor Merriman

This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity - an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy. It investigates the erosion of public life in liberal democracies, and critiques the attention economy of deficit culture, by which austerity erodes life-in-common in favour of narcissistic performances of life-in-public. It argues for a social order committed to human flourishing and deliberative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030032590
• ISBN13: 9783030032593
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"