Brings together responses to the Artaud question from some of the leading contemporary scholars working in the Humanities today. The essays cover a wide variety of topics inopening the Artaud question to the disciplines - and the demarcations upon which so much knowledge and art practive is defined. Contributors include Rex Butler, Alan Cholodenko, Lisabeth During, Julia Kristeva, Frances Dyson, Patick Guery and Sylvia Lotringer.