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

Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823251322)

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

Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality

$95.00
Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality by Strauss, Jonathan

Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Jonathan Strauss
ISBN-10: 0823251322
ISBN-13: 9780823251322
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2013
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d
By Jonathan Strauss
By Jonathan Strauss
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Jonathan Strauss is Professor of French at Miami University. He is the author of Subjects of Terror: Nerval, Hegel, and the Modern Self and of Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Fordham).

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