{"product_id":"the-antigone-complex-cecilia-sjholm-9780804748926","title":"The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules. Sjolm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book introduces the concept of the \"Antigone complex\" in order to illuminate the obscure and multifaceted question of feminine desire, which has given rise to the fascination of generations of philosophers and other theoreticians, as well as readers and spectators. At the same time the book argues for a notion of desire that is intrinsically related to ethics. The ethical question posed by Antigone, and explored in the book, is: what determines those actions that one \u003ci\u003emust\u003c\/i\u003e do, as opposed to those that one ought to do?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cecilia Sjolm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804748926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804748926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.26w x 0.73d","brand":"Cecilia Sjolm","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926222373119,"sku":"9780804748926","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4f40e622-f63e-4a7b-8caa-2f28b092b4f1.jpg?v=1681081877","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-antigone-complex-cecilia-sjholm-9780804748926","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}