An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the
leading cultural and social thinker 'All the world's a stage'
declares the melancholy Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Today that's an unhappy thought. A cluster of demagogues has
recently dominated the public realm through their powers as actors;
they are brilliant performers. More unsettling, the demagogue, the
dancer, the musician all share the same non-verbal realm of bodily
gestures, lighting and blocking, costuming, stage architecture. So
too, the roles and rituals of everyday life and everyday acting can
be malign or sublime, repressive or liberating. Performing
constitutes one art - an ambiguous art. In this book, the acclaimed
sociologist Richard Sennett explores uncomfortable connections
between performances in life, art, and politics. He draws on his
own early career as a professional cellist as well on histories
both Western and non-Western. He is not a pessimist; at the end of
his study, he shows how this ambiguous art might become more
ethical.
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