Antigone (Paperback)

WHY ANTIGONE?; INTRODUCING ANTIGONE; KEY THEMES; 1. Sophocles’ Antigone as a ‘bad’ woman; 2. The divine vs human laws controversy; 3. Gendered and anti-gendered Antigone; 4. The politics of lamentation; 5. Death and posthumanism in Sophocles’ Antigone; 6. Antigone in Rome; ANTIGONE AFTERWARDS; A. IN CRITICAL THINKING; 7. De-politicizing Antigone: Hegel, Lacan, and beyond; 8. Re-politicizing Antigone; B. IN THE ARTS AND SOCIETY; 9. From the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century; 10. War: Antigones in WWII, Nazi Occupation, and Civil-War Greece; 11. Dispossession: Palestinian Antigone; 12. Equality: Antigones of many subjectivities in the 21^st century.