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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan StraussPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.443kg ISBN: 9780823251322ISBN 10: 0823251322 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 01 August 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsGCGBPStraussGCOs monograph stands as a unique contribution that will be impossible to ignore for many years to come. The reason is that Strauss does not simply do an analysis of SophoclesGCO play, nor does he merely review the literatureGCoalthough his readings of both the play and the literature are exemplary. In addition, Strauss constructs Antigone as a figure or a concept that is essential today in order to comprehend our individuality as well as the political.GC[yen] GCoDimitris Vardoulakis, University of Western Sidney Strauss' monograph stands as a unique contribution that will be impossible to ignore for many years to come. The reason is that Strauss does not simply do an analysis of Sophocles' play, nor does he merely review the literature - although his readings of both the play and the literature are exemplary. In addition, Strauss constructs 'Antigone' as a figure or a concept that is essential today in order to comprehend our individuality as well as the political.-Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Western Sydney For some readers these thematic anchors will hold in tension an impressive interdisciplinary project that incorporates analyses of not only ancient dramatic and philosophical texts and their reception in contemporary theory but also cultural practices regarding burial, such as funerary monuments and speeches, revealing the emergence of the concept of individuality. For other readers the anachronism that Strauss 'seeks to work through rather than avoid' (p.9) may prove one anchor too many and sink a project eager to find traces of a distinctly modern subjectivity in Antigone, which he locates, negatively, in the form of a desire.--Critical Inquiry Strauss's monograph stands as a unique contribution that will be impossible to ignore for many years to come. The reason is that Strauss does not simply do an analysis of Sophocles' play, nor does he merely review the literature-although his readings of both the play and the literature are exemplary. In addition, Strauss constructs Antigone as a figure or a concept that is essential today in order to comprehend our individuality as well as the political. -- -Dimitris Vardoulakis University of Western Sidney Strauss' monograph stands as a unique contribution that will be impossible to ignore for many years to come. The reason is that Strauss does not simply do an analysis of Sophocles' play, nor does he merely review the literature - although his readings of both the play and the literature are exemplary. In addition, Strauss constructs Antigone as a figure or a concept that is essential today in order to comprehend our individuality as well as the political. Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Western Sydney Author InformationJonathan 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |