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Setting the Stage: Performing the Divided Self of a New Cosmopolitanism

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This chapter studies and contextualizes the socio-cultural context in which theatre of cosmopolitanism emerges. It outlines a sum of artistic devices that help cosmopolitan theatre artists put their political and ethical project forward. It speaks to the difficulties of using the term ‘cosmopolitanism’ in today’s climate of rising xenophobia and nationalism. To explain its etymology and political weight, it puts this term into a historical perspective as well as the philosophical tendencies of the time. This chapter comments on the methodological and epistemological background of the project. It closes with a brief overview of the layout of the book’s chapters.

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Meerzon, Y. (2020). Setting the Stage: Performing the Divided Self of a New Cosmopolitanism. In: Performance, Subjectivity, Cosmopolitanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41410-8_1

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