Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism

by S. E. Wilmer, Audrone Zukauskaite

Overview

Antigone has become a major figure in current cultural discourse thanks to the late twentieth-century interpretations by such controversial theorists as Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray, Zizek, and Judith Butler. This collection of articles by distinguished scholars from a variety of intellectual disciplines (including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, theatre, and the classics) provides a postmodern perspective on the ethical and political issues raised by this ancient text and recent theatrical productions. The contributors provide an array of perspectives on a female figure who questions the role of the patriarchal state.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199559213
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/28/2010
Series:	Classical Presences
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

S. E. Wilmer is Head of the School of Drama, Film, and Music, Trinity College, Dublin

Audrone Zukauskaite is Senior researcher at the Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute, Vilnius

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Philosophy and Politics1. Antigone's Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning, Tina Chanter2. Naked Life: Arendt and the Exile at Colonus, Cecilia Sjoholm3. Biopolitics: Antigone's Claim, Audrone Zukauskaite4. The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics, Eugene O'Brien2. Psychoanalysis and the Law5. Lacan's Antigone, Terry Eagleton6. Psychoanalysing ‘Antigone', Mark Griffith7. One Amongst Many: The Ethical Significance of ‘Antigone' and the Films of Lars Von Trier, Calum Neill8. ‘Antigone', Antigone: Lacan and the Structure of the Law, Ahuvia Kahane9. Sophocles' ‘Antigone' and the Democratic Voice, Judith Fletcher10. ‘Antigone' and the Law: Legal Theory and the Ambiguities of Performance, Klaas Tindemans3. Gender and Kinship11. Antigone: Between Myth and History/Antigone's Legacy, Luce Irigaray12. Antigone with(out) Jocaste, Bracha Ettinger13. Autochthonous Antigone: Breaking Ground, Liz Appel14. Antigone and her Brother: What Sort of Special Relationship?, Isabelle Torrance15. Reclaiming Femininity: Antigone's 'Choice' in Art and Art History, Martina Meyer4. Translations, Adaptations, and Performance16. Reading ‘Antigone' in Translation: Text, Paratext, Intertext, Deborah Roberts17. Speed and Tragedy in Cocteau and Sophocles, Sean Kirkland18. Politicizing ‘Antigone', Erika Fischer-Lichte19. From Ancient Greek Drama to Argentina's ‘Dirty War'. ‘Antigona Furiosa': on Bodies and the State, Florencia Nelli20. Revolutionary Muse: Femi Osofisan's ‘Tegonni: An African Antigone', Astrid van Weyenberg21. Performing ‘Antigone' in the Twenty-First Century, S. E. Wilmer

Editorial Reviews

"The editors of Interrogating Antigone have assembled an extensive collection of thought-provoking, original essays to foster productive conversations across disciplines and encourage interpretive possibilities in representing, re-imagining, and re-visioning
Antigone in philosophy and literature, as well as in the visual and performing arts...the volume presents an excellent example of an interdisciplinary discourse that fuses theoretical and practical concerns, offering useful insights to both scholars and theatre practitioners."—Theatre Journal

"A series of thought-provoking essays which scrutinize Antigone as a paradigm of bodily exposure and exile, drawing on Agamben's and Arendt's concepts of bare and naked life."—Theatre Research international

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