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Sacred Transgressions – A Reading of Sophocles` Antigone Seth Benardete 1st edition

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Sacred Transgressions – A Reading of Sophocles` Antigone

Seth Benardete

1st edition

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.

168 pages

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	May 15, 2015
ISBN13	9781587317637
Publishers	St Augustine's Press
Pages	168
Dimensions	152 × 241 × 12 mm · 252 g
Language	English