Jonathan Strauss Private Lives, Public Deaths (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Private Lives, Public Deaths Condition: New Subtitle: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality ISBN-10: 0823251322 EAN: 9780823251322 ISBN: 9780823251322 Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Hardback Release Date: 08/01/2013 Description: In Private Lives, Public Deaths , Jonathan Strauss shows how Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment—fifth century Athens—into one idea: the value of a single living person. That idea existed, however, only as a powerful but unconscious desire. Drawing on classical studies, Hegel, and contemporary philosophical interpretations of this pivotal drama, Strauss argues that Antigone’s tragedy, and perhaps all classical tragedy, represents a failure to satisfy this longing. To the extent that the value of a living individual remains an open question, what Sophocles attempted to imagine still escapes our understanding. Antigone is, in this sense, a text not from the past but from our future. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Author: Jonathan Strauss Genre: Literary Criticism Release Year: 2013 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
