Let Them Rot : : Antigone’s Parallax / / Alenka Zupančič.
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.There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than Sophocl...
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Zupančič, Alenka, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Let Them Rot : Antigone’s Parallax / Alenka Zupančič. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (96 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE: “A HOT MIND OVER CHILLY THINGS” -- 1 VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND UNWRITTEN LAWS -- 2 DEATH, UNDEADNESS, AND FUNERAL RITES -- 3 “I’D LET THEM ROT” -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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.There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than Sophocles’ Antigone. The general perspective from which the book is written could be summarized with this simple question: What is it about the figure of Antigone that keeps haunting us? Why do all these readings and rewritings keep emerging? To what kind of always contemporary contradiction does the need, the urge to reread and reimagine Antigone—in all kinds of contexts and languages—correspond? As key anchor points of this general interrogation, three particular “obsessions” have driven the author’s thinking and writing about Antigone. First is the issue of violence. The violence in Antigone is the opposite of “graphic” as we have come to know it in movies and in the media; rather, it is sharp and piercing, it goes straight to the bone. It is the violence of language, the violence of principles, the violence of desire, the violence of subjectivity. Then there is the issue of funerary rites and their role in appeasing the specific “undeadness” that seems to be the other side of human life, its irreducible undercurrent that death alone cannot end and put to rest. This issue prompted the author to look at the relationship between language, sexuality, death, and “second death.” The third issue, which constitutes the focal point of the book, is Antigone’s statement that if it were her children or husband lying unburied out there, she would let them rot and not take it upon herself to defy the decree of the state. The author asks, how does this exclusivist, singularizing claim (she would do it only for Polyneices), which she uses to describe the “unwritten law” she follows, tally with Antigone’s universal appeal and compelling power? Attempting to answer this leads to the question of what this particular (Oedipal) family’s misfortune, of which Antigone chooses to be the guardian, shares with the general condition of humanity. Which in turn forces us to confront the seemingly self-evident question: “What is incest?”Let Them Rot is Alenka Zupančič’s absorbing and succinct guided tour of the philosophical and psychoanalytic issues arising from the Theban trilogy. Her original and surprising intervention into the broad and prominent field of study related to Sophocles’ Antigone illuminates the classical text’s ongoing relevance and invites a wide readership to become captivated by its themes. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Philosophy & Theory. Psychoanalysis. Theater & Performance. PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory. bisacsh Antigone. Death drive. Desire. Emancipatory power. Funeral rites. Incest. Lacan. Oedipus. State. Violence. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2023 English 9783111319223 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2023 9783111318646 ZDB-23-DPH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110751673 print 9781531501037 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501068?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781531501068 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781531501068/original |
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