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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Corrie Controversy: A Drama in Three Acts | |
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| The Play's the Thing: Censorship, Theatre and Ideology | |
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| Theatre as a Social Institution | |
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| The Only Thing We Have to Fear | |
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| Thus Spake Nicola | |
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| The Cartoons Made Me Do It | |
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| Self-Censorship: The True Haven of Ideology | |
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| A Thought Experiment | |
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| Sketch for Ecoterrorism: A Tragic Farce in Three Acts | |
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| Mendacity: The Prospects of Progressive Theatre under Capitalism | |
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| You Don't Need a Weatherman Because There's No Wind | |
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| Where Have You Gone, Marat/Sade? | |
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| Author! Author! | |
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| The Art of Monologue | |
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| Follow the Money | |
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| Toward a Really Poor Theatre | |
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| Beyond the Corrie Controversy: Manifesto for a Progressive Theatre | |
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| Ideology: The Heart of the Ulcer | |
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| The Trouble with Truffles: On the Ideological Paralysis of the Left | |
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| The Left Today: A Deferred Crisis | |
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| What Is to Be Done? | |
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| Neither Science or Religion | |
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| Radical Psychoanalysis: A Primer | |
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| Night and Fog | |
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| Always Historicize | |
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| The Humanist Tradition: The Philosophical and Rhetorical Roots of Ideological Paralysis | |
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| Humanus, Inc.: How the Center Holds | |
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| Two Humanisms? | |
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| The Dilemma of "Pluralism" | |
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| Now Don't Try to Reason with Me | |
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| The Art of Rhetoric vs. the Critique of Ideology | |
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| Ego Stability with Multiple Selves vs. Psyche as Existentializing Process | |
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| A Humanistic Ethic of Rhetorical Rationality vs. a Tragic Ethic of Existence | |
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| Emotion: The Flesh-and-Blood Reader vs. the Existentially Engaged Reader | |
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| Literature: Saving the World vs. Getting the Guests | |
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| The Way Out of the Cave: Overture: "Happy Birthday, Sam!" | |
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| The Knot at the Center: The Tragic Structure of Experience | |
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| From Avoidance to the Traumatic Event | |
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| Trauma as Turning Point | |
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| Recognition: Suffering Who One Is | |
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| Active Reversal: Through Agon to Crisis | |
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| The Crisis: The Dramatistic Logic of Change | |
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| Epilogue: Toward a Psychoanalytic Politics | |
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| An Evening with JonBenet Ramsey | |
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| Between Two Deaths: Life on the Row | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |