Antigone, interrupted /
"Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of the...
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Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction; Part I. Interruption: Introduction to Part I; 1. Tragedy, maternalism, ethics: toward an agonistic humanism; 2. 'Antigone versus Oedipus,' I: feminist theory and the turn to Antigone; 3. 'Antigone versus Oedipus,' II: the directors' Agon in Germany in Autumn; Part II. Conspiracy: Introduction to Part II; 4. Mourning, membership and the politics of exception: plotting Creon's conspiracy with democracy; 5. From lamentation to logos: Antigone's conspiracy with language; 6. Sacrifice, sorority, integrity: Antigone's conspiracy with Ismene; Conclusion.
