Antigone, Interrupted

Informationen zum Autor Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University, Rhode Island. She was formerly Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor in Political Science at Northwestern University, Illinois and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago. She is an award-winning author whose work has been translated into numerous languages and is read by a wide interdisciplinary audience composed of scholars and researchers in political theory, philosophy, classics, gender studies, cultural studies, American studies, comparative literature, critical theory, media studies, law and international relations. Klappentext A new interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone, exploring the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism. Zusammenfassung Antigone! Interrupted explores the intertwined history of law! politics! gender and humanism through a new reading of Sophocles' classical tragedy. Studying the play in its fifth-century and modern contexts! Bonnie Honig argues for an Antigone committed not just to dissidence but to a positive politics of counter-sovereignty and solidarity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. Interruption: Introduction to Part I: 1. Tragedy, maternalism, ethics: toward an agonistic humanism; 2. 'Antigone versus Oedipus', I: feminist theory and the turn to Antigone; 3. 'Antigone versus Oedipus', II: the directors' agon in Germany in Autumn; Part II. Conspiracy: Introduction to Part II: 4. Mourning, membership, and the politics of exception: plotting Creon's conspiracy with democracy; 5. From lamentation to logos: Antigone's conspiracy with language; 6. Sacrifice, sorority, integrity: Antigone's conspiracy with Ismene; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Honig, Bonnie (Northwestern University Honig, Honig Bonnie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2013
• EAN: 9781107036970
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03697-0
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Theatre Studies, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Gender studies: women, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights