'The Antigone and Its Moral'
Title | 'The Antigone and Its Moral' PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Brigger Kruger |
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Pages | 90 |
Release | 2009 |
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Writings
Title | Writings PDF eBook |
Author | George Eliot |
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Pages | 426 |
Release | 1908 |
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Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy
Title | Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Ahrensdorf |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2009-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139475584 |
In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles' powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: should citizens and leaders govern political society by the light of unaided human reason or religious faith? Through an examination of Sophocles' timeless masterpieces - Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone - Ahrensdorf offers a sustained challenge to the prevailing view, championed by Nietzsche in his attack on Socratic rationalism, that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism. Ahrensdorf argues that Sophocles is a genuinely philosophical thinker and a rationalist, albeit one who advocates a cautious political rationalism. Ahrensdorf concludes with an incisive analysis of Nietzsche, Socrates and Aristotle on tragedy and philosophy. He argues, against Nietzsche, that the rationalism of Socrates and Aristotle incorporates a profound awareness of the tragic dimension of human existence and therefore resembles in fundamental ways the somber and humane rationalism of Sophocles.
The Antigone Complex
Title | The Antigone Complex PDF eBook |
Author | Cecilia Sjöholm |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2004-10-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0804767262 |
What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules. Sjöholm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of Antigone by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. This book introduces the concept of the "Antigone complex" in order to illuminate the obscure and multifaceted question of feminine desire, which has given rise to the fascination of generations of philosophers and other theoreticians, as well as readers and spectators. At the same time the book argues for a notion of desire that is intrinsically related to ethics. The ethical question posed by Antigone, and explored in the book, is: what determines those actions that one must do, as opposed to those that one ought to do?
Antigone, Interrupted
Title | Antigone, Interrupted PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie Honig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107355648 |
Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions. Exploring the power of Antigone in a variety of political, cultural, and theoretical settings, Honig identifies the 'Antigone-effect' - which moves those who enlist Antigone for their politics from activism into lamentation. She argues that Antigone's own lamentations can be seen not just as signs of dissidence but rather as markers of a rival world view with its own sovereignty and vitality. Honig argues that the play does not offer simply a model for resistance politics or 'equal dignity in death', but a more positive politics of counter-sovereignty and solidarity which emphasizes equality in life.
Antigone
Title | Antigone PDF eBook |
Author | Sophocles |
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Pages | 104 |
Release | 1853 |
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The Possibility of Religious Freedom
Title | The Possibility of Religious Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Taliaferro |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2019-10-17 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108423957 |
A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.