Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism [Hardcover]

Antigone has become a major figure in current cultural discourse thanks to the late twentieth-century interpretations by such controversial theorists as Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray, Zizek, and Judith Butler. This collection of articles by distinguished scholars from a variety of intellectual disciplines (including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, theatre, and the classics) provides a postmodern perspective on the ethical and political issues raised by this ancient text and recent theatrical productions. The contributors provide an array of perspectives on a female figure who questions the role of the patriarchal state.

Introduction
1. Philosophy and Politics
1. Antigone's Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning,Tina Chanter
2. Naked Life: Arendt and the Exile at Colonus,Cecilia Sjoholm
3. Biopolitics: Antigone's Claim,Audrone Zukauskaite
4. The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics,Eugene O'Brien
2. Psychoanalysis and the Law
5. Lacan's Antigone,Terry Eagleton
6. Psychoanalysing `Antigone',Mark Griffith
7. One Amongst Many: The Ethical Significance of `Antigone' and the Films of Lars Von Trier,Calum Neill
8. `Antigone', Antigone: Lacan and the Structure of the Law,Ahuvia Kahane
9. Sophocles' `Antigone' and the Democratic Voice,Judith Fletcher
10. `Antigone' and the Law: Legal Theory and the Ambiguities of Performance,Klaas Tindemans
3. Gender and Kinship
11. Antigone: Between Myth and History/Antigone's Legacy,Luce Irigaray
12. Antigone with(out) Jocaste,Bracha Ettinger
13. Autochthonous Antigone: Breaking Ground,Liz Appel
14. Antigone and her Brother: What Sort of Special Relationship?,Isabelle Torrance
15. Reclaiming Femininity: Antigone's 'Choice' in Art and Art History,Mal3Ã