Rahpooye Honar/Performing Arts

Rahpooye Honar/Performing Arts

Phenomenology of the concept of presence and absence in the play Verb by Mohammad Rezaei Rad

Document Type : Original Article

Author
PhD candidate in Theater Studies, Faculty of Performing Arts and Music, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Ever since the emergence of drama in this world of possibilities, there has always been an affirmative or privative relationship between philosophy and drama. Among the thinkers who’ve approached to art based on this perspective, Martin Heidegger in his book The Origin of the Work of Art presented an ontological interpretation of ancient Greece’s tragedies and reflected on the relationship between drama and existence, in other words, the presence and absence of existence in drama. In this study, in order to understand the relationship between philosophy and drama based on ontology, we use the method of hermeneutic phenomenology and library sources to study the play of Mohammad Rezaei Rad based on the ontological relationship between Presence and Absence in Martin Heidegger's thought so that we can contemplate the relationship between philosophy and drama with an ontological approach in Iranian drama and explain the fundamental aspects of this work. For this purpose, we propose the hypothesis that the foundation of this play is based on the dialectic of presence and absence and the structural elements of this work are based on that foundation. We first consider the relationship between drama and philosophy and then describe the method. In our cognition, we reflect on what presence and absence is, and the approach goal of understanding is how these two concepts occur as the fundamental principles of the play. We will also implicitly show how it is possible to narrate the relation between human and the universe by examining the philosophical concepts and using them in drama.
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Volume 2, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Spring 2022
Pages 97-108

  • Receive Date 18 January 2022
  • Revise Date 08 February 2022
  • Accept Date 24 May 2022