Richard Gilman (1923–2006)
Autor von Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Gilman, Richard Martin
- Andere Namen
- GILMAN, Richard Martin
GILMAN, Richard - Geburtstag
- 1923-04-30
- Todestag
- 2006-10-28
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
- Ausbildung
- University of Wisconsin (1947)
- Berufe
- theater critic
professor - Beziehungen
- Gilman, Esther (wife|divorced)
Gilman, Nicholas (son) - Organisationen
- Yale University (School of Drama)
Newsweek
Commonweal
United States Marine Corps
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AndreasJ | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 29, 2015 |
AndreasJ | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 29, 2015 | 
"Words take on life...", Gilman begins, as he explores, without attempting to lock in a definition, "Decadence" and its biography. Begins and ends with the observation that the word recommends itself "...to the shallow, the thoughtless and imitative, the academically frozen: monkey-minds." {180}.
Cites Baudelaire's anathema, that it is a word which shelters our "lack of curiosity regarding the Law". {29, 179} Perhaps its use is a complacency, a screen of indifference. "The Law is what is, what truly exists and happens, what cannot be reduced to our opinions, our 'slants'."
It's use is revelatory of "some of the ways we cheat ourselves of truth through language." {180} By stuffing ourselves with emptiness.… (mehr)
Cites Baudelaire's anathema, that it is a word which shelters our "lack of curiosity regarding the Law". {29, 179} Perhaps its use is a complacency, a screen of indifference. "The Law is what is, what truly exists and happens, what cannot be reduced to our opinions, our 'slants'."
It's use is revelatory of "some of the ways we cheat ourselves of truth through language." {180} By stuffing ourselves with emptiness.… (mehr)
This was a very readable and applicable analysis of major playwrights.
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