Antigone's Claim
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231118953 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 118 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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J. Draper said Profound work on the legacy of Antigone. Antigone's revolt lives on! As Butler says herself in the introduction, she is not a classicist and has no desire to be one. This book is about the intellectual/artistic legacy of the figure of Antigone and the political and philosophical implications of her performative resistance to state power. Having taken a seminar in 1998 with Butler on the very topic of Antigone, I can assure you that the author is. "I would give it zero if I could" according to A Customer. This is a terrible book. This is I think the worst monograph I have ever read. Miss Butler cannot write English; moreover, she apparently cannot read Greek. Anyone who has taken the trouble to read the Antigone in Greek and translate it (as I have) would know immediately--to drop into the cistern of academic language for a moment--that The Antigone is an "unstable text" We don't even know what many lines . Butler (Miss Butler if ur nasty) is at is again A Customer Judging from the reader reviews on this website, Judith Butler has yet again succeeded in provoking the outrage of several diehard and blue-in-the-face classics scholars. Those classicists who feel outraged by her work might consider her illuliminating comments on Hölderlin's own translation of Antigone, translations that themselves were received as scandals in their time and that continue, like Anti
Butler masterfully leads us to a newfound theoretical activism within the political domain. K. (Ido Geiger Hagar: Studies in Culture Polity Identities) . (Maria Cimitile Hypatia)Brief but powerful and provocative nook. (Shireen R. Butler is interested in Antigone as a liminal figure between the family and the state, between life and death but also as a figure, like all her kin, who represents the non-normative family, a set of kinship relations that seems to defy the standard model one senses in Butler's interest homage to those who
Along the way, she considers the works of such philosophers as Hegel, Lacan, and Irigaray. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. How, she asks, would psychoanalysis have been different if it had taken Antigonethe "postoedipal" subjectrather than Oedipus as its point of departure? If the incest taboo is reconceived so that it does not mandate heterosexuality as its solution, what forms of sexual alliance and new kinship might be acknowledged as a result? The book relates the courageous deeds of Antigone to the claims made by those whose relations are still not honored as those of proper kinship, showing how a culture of normative heterosexuality obstructs our capacity to see what sexual freedom and political agency could be.. Butler argues that Antigone r