Private Lives, Public Deaths : : Antigone and the Invention of Individuality / / Jonathan Strauss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Strauss, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 1 Illustration, black and white
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Greek 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 --; Appendix A: Summary of Sophocles’s Labdacid Cycle --; Appendix B: Timeline of Relevant Events in Ancient Greece --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823292448; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823292448
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jonathan Strauss.

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.