St. Augustine's Press
A Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone
168 pages, 6” x 9”, clothbound,
notes, appendix
ISBN: 978-1-890318-77-2
$30.00 (£21.00)
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St. Augustine's Press |
This
detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles’ Antigone
is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel’s interpretation
in the Phenomenology (VI.A.a-b). It thus moves within the principles Hegel
discovers in the play but reinserts them into the play as they show themselves
across the eccentricities of its plot. Wherever plot and principles do not
match,
there is a glimmer of the argument: Haemon speaks up for the city and Tiresias
for the divine law but neither for Antigone. The guard who reports the burial
and presents Antigone to Creon is as important as Antigone or Creon for
understanding Antigone. The Chorus too in their inconsistent
thoughtfulness have to be taken into account, and in particular how their
understanding of the canniness of man reveals Antigone in their very failure
to count her as a sign of man’s uncanniness: She who is below the horizon
of their awareness is at the heart of their speech. Megareus, the older
son of Creon, who sacrificed his life for the city, looms as large as Eurydice,
whose suicide has nothing in common with Antigone’s. She is “all-mother”;
Antigone is anti-generation. |
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Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone 168 pages, 6” x 9”, clothbound, notes, appendix ISBN: 978-1-890318-77-2 $30.00 (£21.00) |