Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical
resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and
as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all
political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if
there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of
state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both
Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular
intervention can confront? Žižek's rewriting of this classic play
confronts these issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about
them, but by imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial moment, the
action takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run,
Lola, Run or of Brecht's learning plays. A brilliantly funny, moving
and political piece for those who are interested in reading and
watching Antigone in an entirely new way.
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ISBN
9781474269391
Publisert
2020
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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