| #681427 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||Butler is interested in Antigone as a liminal figure between the family and the state, between life and death... but also as a figure, like all her kin, who represents the non-normative family, a set of kinship relations that seems to defy the standard model..
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 easily download any file type for your gadget.Antigone's Claim | Judith Butler. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
