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Antigone´s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Judith Butler
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Description for Antigone´s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Paperback. Antigone, the insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. This book redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. It reconceptualizes the incest taboo in relation to kinship - and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Series: Wellek Library Lectures S. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150. Kinship Between Life and Death. Series: Wellek Library Lectures S. 112 pages. Antigone, the insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. This book redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. It reconceptualizes the incest taboo in relation to kinship - and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFK. Dimension: 229 x 130 x 8. Weight: 148.
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 what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance ... Read more
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 what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Wellek Library Lectures S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
118
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231118958
SKU
V9780231118958
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About Judith Butler
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Her many acclaimed critical works include Subjects of Desire, Gender Trouble, The Psychic Life of Power, and Bodies That Matter.
Reviews for Antigone´s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
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... one senses in Butler's interest... homage to those who have lived, or have tried to ... Read more