1st Edition

The Phenomenology of Audio Drama

By Clive Cazeaux Copyright 2026
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

Audio drama is overlooked by philosophy even though it raises many philosophical questions. It seems to be a contradiction: drama is a form of showing yet the exemplary form of showing a world—visual representation—is absent from it. What kinds of world do we find if we concentrate on what is revealed through sound and the voice? According to fans of the medium, ‘the best pictures are in the... Read more

Introduction  1. The bond between ‘audio’ and ‘drama’ in Aristotle’s mimesis  2. Out of our minds and into the world  3. The phenomenology of a resonant radio-body  4. The invitational character of audio drama  5. Questions concerning technology for postdramatic audio drama  6. On not coming to terms with indeterminate sound  7. The technological disclosure of a world in postdramatic audio drama  8. Becoming a voice against narration  Conclusion

Biography

Clive Cazeaux is Professor of Aesthetics at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. He is the author of Art, Research, Philosophy (Routledge 2017) and Metaphor and Continental Philosophy: From Kant to Derrida (Routledge 2007), and the editor of The Continental Aesthetics Reader (Routledge 2011, 2nd edition).

"With this remarkable book, Cazeaux opens up a vibrant new branch in the study of audio drama. It is destined to become a cornerstone book that reshapes how we approach audio drama by revealing it to be one of the richest and most neglected modern art forms from a philosophical point of view."

Neil Verma, Northwestern University, USA