Let Them Rot - Antigone''s Parallax

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.

List of contents

Preface | vii

Prologue | 1

1. Violence, Terror, and Unwritten Laws | 9

2. Death, Undeadness, and Funeral Rites | 21

3. "I'd Let Them Rot" | 50

Works Cited | 83

Index | 85

About the author

Alenka Zupan¿i¿ is a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist. She is a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of many books, including What Is Sex? (2017), The Odd One In: On Comedy (2008), and Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (2000).

Summary

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles’ Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.

Product details

• Authors: Zupan&, Alenka Zupan&269;i&269;, Alenka Zupancic
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781531501037
• ISBN: 978-1-5315-0103-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory; Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day