Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone
This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles= Antigone ismeant 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 Aall-mother ; Antigone is anti-generation.
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Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone
This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles= Antigone ismeant 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 Aall-mother ; Antigone is anti-generation.
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Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone

Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone

by Seth Benardete
Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone

Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone

by Seth Benardete

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This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles= Antigone ismeant 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 Aall-mother ; Antigone is anti-generation.

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ISBN-13: 9781587317637
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Publication date: 03/10/2013
Edition description: 1
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

The late Seth Benardete was one of the most outstanding classical scholars of the 20th century. He taught at New York University and wrote innumerable works in the classics.

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