Concept
Actor
Overview
person who acts in a dramatic or comic production and works in film, television, theatre, or radio
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Actor, Author; Authority Of Persons Artificiall, some have their words and actions Owned by those whom they represent. And then the Person is the Actor; and he that owneth his words and actions, is the AUTHOR: In which case the Actor acteth by Authority. For that which in speaking of goods and possessions, is called an Owner, and in latine Dominus, in Greeke Kurios; speaking of Actions, is called Author.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Names Actor several times; states what Actor is.
It would, indeed, be a fine thing to discover that instead of thinkers, psychologists, or experts we required nothing but clairvoyant actors to throw light upon the essence of any condition. Let us never forget, whenever such pretensions are heard, that the actor is nothing but an ideal ape—so much of an ape is he, indeed, that he is not capable of believing in the “essence” or in the “essential”: everything becomes…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day
Names Actor several times; states what Actor is.
To complete the _dramatis personæ_ of every merry company, an actor is necessary, who feels pleasure when the others, to enliven many an indifferent moment, point the arrows of their wit at him. If he is not merely a stuffed Saracen, like those on whom the knights used to practise their lances in mock battles, but understands himself how to skirmish, to rally and to challenge, how to wound lightly, and recover…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry
States what Actor is; opens on Actor.
Philosophers who discussed Actor
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- Frankfurt
- Dark Ages (historiography)
- High culture
- Italy
- Spanish Netherlands
- Edo period
- Internet Archive
- Random House
- Middle Ages
- The Observer
- The Guardian
- BBC
- Drama
- Film
- Ottoman Empire
- Performance
- Late Middle Ages
- Paris
- Paganism
- Puritans
- Silent film
- The New York Times
- Time (magazine)
- University of Chicago
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.