This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boalrsquo;s work is the first to look rsquo;beyond Boalrsquo; and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context.A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory ndash; Merleau-Ponty; Emmanuel Levinas; race theory; feminist performance art; Deleuze and Guattari; and liberation psychology ndash; to name just a few; and in doing so; the kinship between Boalrsquo;s project and multiple fields of social psychology; ethics; biology; comedy; trauma studies and political science is made visible.The ideas generated throughout A Boal Companion will:expand readers understanding of TO as a complex; interdisciplinary; multivocal body of philosophical discoursesprovide a variety of lenses through which to practice and critique TOmake explicit the relationship between TO and other bodies of work.This collection is ideal for TO practitioners and scholars who want to expand their knowledge; but it also provides unfamiliar readers and new students to the discipline with an excellent study resource.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not worth buying.; worth looking at though.By Marcus Quinn Rodriguez TenesI was expecting Sheer Joy. This was not it. Who told Nathaniel this was sheer joy? Not me. I had him for a course in differential geometry but dropped it within the first few days. His lecture notes reminded me of this. Disorganized. Full of interesting ideas; but lacking rigor and clarity. Typical of a mathematician for this age. A lot of mathematicians have rigor; and no clarity. Few mathematicians have clarity. At times he appears brilliant with his usage of differential geometry; but at other times he fails to excite as he claims in the title. The Fourier Series of orbits really had me; but it appeared as just a bunch of equations with no real insight. Isnt that what I am paying for; insight? I was hoping for something regarding deeper analysis into the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian methods; but nothing. Very old. I imagine reading Lagrange originals would be more exciting; and I tried that. Antiquated. His notation is more modern; but lacks the formality and completeness of a mathematicians structure in this day and age. More of a hodge podge of topics; and fails to be exciting or relevant to an astronomical picture of the sky. If youre going to make it simple; have pictures and explain whats going on. If youre going to be a mathematician; follow a definition; theorem; proof format. He doesnt really do either and it makes me wonder who trained him to write mathematics. Probably no one. He is a brilliant man in mathematics; but the presentation is sorely lacking. I havent found a Celestial Mechanics book worth reading as of now; and as we have already shown the need for General Relativity in Celestial Mechanics; a book like this is an antique in actuality. Like for people who want to listen to vinyl for cracks and pops?15 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Nice to own a good math book of this typeBy James E. LearI had read some of this book as a library book first and wanted it for my own! It isnt obvious from the title that it is a MATH BOOK at first; but considering it does say "Mechanics"; there is a hint. It is a very good review of that part of math that one may not get in a regular Physics schooling or Math degree. It truly covers the stuff that is involved with plantery orbits (and even their perturbations); ie: Rotating Coordinates; Central Forces and Inverse Square Law. Fourier series; Bessel and Legendre functions and other studies of classical potential theory are a main theme. Grossman builds upon a students knoledge of calculus and develops towards his love of celestial mechanics as a study of love of the joy of applicable mathematics. J.E. Lear