Private Lives, Public Deaths

Antigone and the Invention of Individuality

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Av Jonathan Strauss

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In Private Lives, Public Deaths, Jonathan Strauss shows how Sophocles' tragedy Antigone crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment—fifth century Athens—into one idea: the value of a single living person. That idea existed, however, only as a powerful but unconscious desire. Drawing on classical studies, Hegel, and contemporary philosophical interpretations of this pivotal drama, Strauss argues that Antigone's tragedy, and perhaps all classical tragedy, represents a failure to satisfy this longing.To the extent that the value of a living individual remains an open question, what Sophocles attempted to imagine still escapes our understanding. Antigone is, in this sense, a text not from the past but from our future.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagFordham University Press
ISBN9780823251339

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Acknowledgments Note on Transliterations Introduction: Tragedy, the City, and Its Dead 1. Two Orders of Individuality 2. The Citizen 3. Loss Embodied 4. States of Exclusion 5. Inventing Life 6. Mourning, Longing, Loving 7. Exit Tragedy appendixes Appendix A: Summary of Sophocles's Labdacid Cycle Appendix B: Timeline of Relevant Events in Ancient Greece Notes Works Cited Index

"Strauss's monograph stands as a unique contribution that will be impossible to ignore for many years to come. The reason is that Strauss does not simply do an analysis of Sophocles' play, nor does he merely review the literature—although his readings of both the play and theliterature are exemplary. In addition, Strauss constructs Antigone as a figure or a concept that is essential today in order to comprehend our individuality as well as the political."---—Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Western Sidney