Antigone's claim
Subtitle: kinship between life and death
By: Judith Butler.
Series: The Wellek Library lectures
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.; Irigaray, Luce.; Lacan, Jacques, 1901-; Antigone (Greek mythology); Kinship -- Philosophy.; Feminist theory.
Description: "Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocle's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk.

Moreover, Antignone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a liveable life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-97) and index.