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Antigone by Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK New York University, USA University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular intervention can confront? Zizek's rewriting of this classic play confronts these issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about them, but by imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial moment, the action takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run, Lola, Run or of Brecht's learning plays. A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who are interested in reading and watching Antigone in an entirely new way.

Antigone Reviews

A Fascinating read, and the language positively flies off the page. * Terry Eagleton *

About Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK New York University, USA University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is international director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Play Postscript Index

Additional information

GOR009315707
9781474269377
1474269370
Antigone by Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK New York University, USA University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2016-10-20
72
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