Brecht’s epic theatre is fundamentally enlightenment-oriented and cannot fit a Postmodernist canon

Evidence

Brecht’s emphasis on epic theatre as ‘theatre for instruction’, directed towards ‘an audience of the scientific age’, concerned to encourage its consumers to reflect on, and develop a rational, critical understanding of the world, is so plainly intended to achieve a theatre of enlightenment that it is hard to imagine his plays fitting easily into a Postmodernist canon. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Benjamin’s essay on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction and the aura debate; also the Adorno/Benjamin debates on mass culture. — connects to: Heidegger deliberately writes obscurely to produce an estrangement akin to Brecht’s theatre — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 204

Broader Connections

• Heidegger deliberately writes obscurely to produce an estrangement akin to Brecht’s theatre #complicates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 204