Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama

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The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use