The Spiritual and Moral Dimension of Modern Theatre. The Philosophical and Linguistic Analysis of Rhapsody for the Theatre by A. Badiou

The paper investigates the problems of interconnection between performing arts, politics and the machinery of state, based on works of the famous French philosopher-post-modernist A. Badiou. The analogy between theatre and politics, proposed by him, analyzed when applied to Russian culture and interaction with political realia of past and present. An attempt is made to compare politics and theatre as phenomena that have much in common from the conceptual, structural and functional points of view. The paper also brings up the problem of the status and the role of a person and a society at large as components of creative process, some aspects concerning the extent of influence that theatre makes on both individual consciousness and collective thinking and their view of the world.