Private Lives, Public Deaths
Antigone and the Invention of Individuality
Seiten
2013
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-5133-9 (ISBN)
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-5133-9 (ISBN)
Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle’s tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual.
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.
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.
Jonathan Strauss is Professor of French at Miami University. He is the author of Subjects of Terror: Nerval, Hegel, and the Modern Self and of Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Fordham).
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
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8232-5133-0 / 0823251330 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8232-5133-9 / 9780823251339 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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