Chanter Whose Antigone?

The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3756-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chanter, Tina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviated Titles

1. Introduction: The Shadowy Others of Antigone’s Legacy

2. Antigone’s Liminality: Hegel’s Racial Purification of Tragedy and the Naturalization of Slavery

Hegel’s Prohibition of Slavery as a Tragic Topic
Sculpting Antigone’s Ethics from the Gods of “Nature”

The Simplicity, Solidity, and Plasticity of Tragic Heroes in a Pre-Legal Era

Art Must Be Purer than Life

3. The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa: The Island

The Incessant Renaissance of Antigone

Performative and Political Reflections on Greek Tragedy

Intervening in Fetishistic Readings of Antigone
Antigone’s “False Titties”: The Island

Concluding Remarks

4. Exempting Antigone from Ancient Greece: Multiplying and Racializing Genealogies in Tègònni: An African Antigone

Butler and Mader: Making Polynices Only a Brother

Citizens, Substitutes, and Slaves

A Story to Pass On? Antigone’s Mythological African Sister, Tègònni

5. Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray: The Fetishistic Ruses of Sovereignty in Contemporary Politics

6. Concluding Reflections: What If Oedipus or Polynices Had Been Slaves?

Synopses of The Island and Tègònni

Notes

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is author of The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference; Gender: Key Concepts in Philosophy; Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger; and Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Rewriting of the Philosophers. She is also the coeditor (with Pleshette DeArmitt) of Sarah Kofman's Corpus and (with Ewa Plonowska Ziarek) of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis, both also published by SUNY Press, and the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas.