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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 1 Illustration, black and whiteContent type:
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  • 9780823251339
  • 9780823292448
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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