Interrogating antigone in postmodern philosophy and criticism

A collection of articles by distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines (including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, theatre, and the classics) providing a postmodern perspective on the ethical and political issues raised by the classical figure of Antigone, a woman who questions the role of the patriarchal state. INDICE: Introduction; 1. Philosophy and Politics; 1: Tina Chanter: Antigone's Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning; 2: Cecilia Sjöholm: Naked Life: Arendt and the Exile at Colonus; 3: Audrone Zukauskaite: Biopolitics: Antigone's Claim; 4: Eugene O'Brien: The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics; 2. Psychoanalysis and the Law;5: Terry Eagleton: Lacan's Antigone; 6: Mark Griffith: Psychoanalysing 'Antigone'; 7: Calum Neill: One Amongst Many: The Ethical Significance of 'Antigone'and the Films of Lars Von Trier; 8: Ahuvia Kahane: 'Antigone', Antigone: Lacan and the Structure of the Law; 9: Judith Fletcher: Sophocles' 'Antigone' and the Democratic Voice; 10: Klaas Tindemans: 'Antigone' and the Law: Legal Theory and the Ambiguities of Performance; 3. Gender and Kinship; 11: Luce Irigaray: Antigone: Between Myth and History/Antigone's Legacy; 12: Bracha Ettinger: Antigone with(out) Jocaste; 13: Liz Appel: Autochthonous Antigone: Breaking Ground; 14: Isabelle Torrance: Antigone and her Brother: What Sort of Special Relationship?; 15: Martina Meyer: Reclaiming Femininity: Antigone's 'Choice' in Art and Art History; 4. Translations, Adaptations, and Performance; 16: DeborahRoberts: Reading 'Antigone' in Translation: Text, Paratext, Intertext; 17: Sean Kirkland: Speed and Tragedy in Cocteau and Sophocles; 18: Erika Fischer-Lichte: Politicizing 'Antigone'; 19: Florencia Nelli: From Ancient Greek Drama toArgentina's 'Dirty War'. 'Antígona Furiosa': on Bodies and the State; 20: Astrid van Weyenberg: Revolutionary Muse: Fémi Òsófisan's 'Tègònni: An African Antigone'; 21: S. E. Wilmer: Performing 'Antigone' in the Twenty-First Century

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955921-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés