Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax

by Alenka Zupancic

Overview

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles’ Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531501051
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/17/2023
Series:	Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Alenka Zupančič is a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist. She is a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of many books, including What Is Sex? (2017), The Odd One In: On Comedy (2008), and Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (2000).

Table of Contents

Preface | vii

Prologue | 1

1. Violence, Terror, and Unwritten Laws | 9

2. Death, Undeadness, and Funeral Rites | 21

3. “I’d Let Them Rot” | 50

Works Cited | 83

Index | 85

Editorial Reviews

Zupančič writes with rare lucidity and patience for exposition, helped along by a talent for turning peculiar phrases or seemingly senseless jokes into full-blown insights. Her ideas are fresh, as if they hailed from some open air beyond the clutter of current theoretical quarrels. This brilliant account of Antigone breaks new ground for philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political and feminist theory.—Joan Copjec, Brown University

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