| #377587 in Books | Judith Butler | 2002-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.31 x5.14l,.32 | File type: PDF | 118 pages | Antigone s Claim Kinship Between Life and Death||17 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| Must Like Hegel & Lacan|By Dan|I haven't finished this extremely short text yet. It was originally a small series of lectures. Basically, Butler critiques Hegel's and Lacan's appropriations of Antigone (both the play and, especially, the character) to represent a certain ideal. She summarizes rather lucidly both Hegel's and Lacan's positions. Of course, the problem with b
The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship―and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change.
Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But wh...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Antigone's Claim | Judith Butler. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
