Antigone, Interrupted

Name: Antigone, Interrupted
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ISBN: 9781107668157

ISBN-10: 1107668158

ISBN-13: 9781107668157

Edition: 2013

Authors: Bonnie Honig

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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 their governing assumptions. Exploring the power of Antigone in a variety of political, cultural, and theoretical settings, Honig identifies the 'Antigone-effect' - which moves those who enlist Antigone for their politics from activism into lamentation. She argues that Antigone's own lamentations can be seen not just as signs of dissidence but rather as markers of a rival world view with its own sovereignty and…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Bonnie Honig is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a senior research professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Her books include "Democracy and the Foreigner" (Princeton) and "Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics".



Preface


Introduction



Interruption: Introduction to Part I



Tragedy, maternalism, ethics: toward an agonistic humanism



'Antigone versus Oedipus,' I: feminist theory and the turn to Antigone



'Antigone versus Oedipus,' II: the directors' Agon in Germany in Autumn



Conspiracy: Introduction to Part II



Mourning, membership and the politics of exception: plotting Creon's conspiracy with democracy



From lamentation to logos: Antigone's conspiracy with language



Sacrifice, sorority, integrity: Antigone's conspiracy with Ismene


Conclusion