ACTOR AND GAME: Paradigm of the theater in the work of Eugen Fink Cover Image

GLUMAC I IGRA: Paradigma pozorišta u delu Eugena Finka
ACTOR AND GAME: Paradigm of the theater in the work of Eugen Fink

Author(s): Rade Ćosić
Subject(s): German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Centar za unapređivanje pravnih studija
Keywords: play; being; cult; metaphysics; world; actor; theater

Summary/Abstract: In Eugen Fink’s the „Phenomenology of the Game“ theatrical play is an example that the game, building its own space and time, follows the real world coordinates. The actor, as a player, also follows the rules of the game, and the techniques of communicating with the audience, that, although itself called into play, still stays on the same side of the theater. The actor follows the rules of the imaginary world of the theater, but also he listens to the audience, reflecting its reception of the game. What drives the viewer into the game is precisely the work of the actor, who does not materialize this call beyond the relation of the imaginary world in which the game takes place in, but from the topos and the temporality of performance. In this text, explaining Fink’s „Phenomenology of the Game,” our aim is to point out to this role of the actor in particular, that which uncovers the possibility of stride from the real world, towards any form of genuine game, causelessness, unreasonableness and non-obligation and intolerant to problematization and bringing into question the principles on which a network of contemporary relations of the modern world is conceived.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 79-100
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian