Interrogating Antigone in postmodern philosophy and criticism

✍ Scribed by edited by S.E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2010.
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 220
• Series: Classical presences.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Philosophy and politics. Antigone's political legacies : abjection in defiance of mourning / Tina Chanter ; Naked life : Arendt and the exile at Colonus / Cecilia Sjöholm ; Biopolitics : Antigone's claim / Audronė Žukauskaitė ; The body politic : the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics / Eugene O'Brien --

Psychoanalysis and the law. Lacan's Antigone / Terry Eagleton ; Psychoanalysing Antigone / Mark Griffith ; One amongst many : the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars Von Trier / Calum Neill ; Antigone, Antigone : Lacan and the structure of the law / Ahuvia Kahane ; Sophocles' Antigone and the democratic voice / Judith Fletcher ; Antigone and the law : legal theory and the ambiguities of performance / Klaas Tindemans --

Gender and kinship. Between myth and history : the tragedy of Antigone / Luce Irigaray ; Antigone with(out) Jocaste / Bracha L. Ettinger ; Autochthonous Antigone : breaking ground / Liz Appel ; Antigone and her brother : what sort of special relationship? / Isabelle Torrance ; Reclaiming femininity : Antigone's "choice" in art and art history / Martina Meyer --

Translations, adaptations, and performance. Reading Antigone in translation : text, paratext, intertext / Deborah H. Roberts ; Speed and tragedy in Cocteau and Sophocles / Sean D. Kirkland ; Politicizing Antigone / Erika Fischer-Lichte ; From ancient Greek drama to Argentina's "Dirty War" : Antígona Furiosa : on bodies and the state / María Florencia Nelli ; Revolutionary muse : Fémi Òsófisan's Tègònni : an African Antigone / Astrid Van Weyenberg ; Performing Antigone in the twenty-first century / S.E. Wilmer.