Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism

Antigone has become a major figure in current cultural discourse thanks to the late twentieth-century interpretations by such controversial theorists as Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray, Zizek, and Judith Butler. This collection of articles by distinguished schol

S. E. Wilmer is Head of the School of Drama, Film, and Music, Trinity College, Dublin

Audrone Zukauskaite is Senior researcher at the Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute, Vilnius

Introduction
1. Philosophy and Politics
1. Antigone's Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning, Tina Chanter
2. Naked Life: Arendt and the Exile at Colonus, Cecilia Sjoholm
3. Biopolitics: Antigone's Claim, Audrone Zukauskaite
4. The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics, Eugene O'Brien
2. Psychoanalysis and the Law
5. Lacan's Antigone, Terry Eagleton
6. Psychoanalysing `Antigone', Mark Griffith
7. One Amongst Many: The Ethical Significance of `Antigone' and the Films of Lars Von Trier, Calum Neill
8. `Antigone', Antigone: Lacan and the Structure of the Law, Ahuvia Kahane
9. Sophocles' `Antigone' and the Democratic Voice, Judith Fletcher
10. `Antigone' and the Law: Legal Theory and the Ambiguities of Performance, Klaas Tindemans
3. Gender and Kinship
11. Antigone: Between Myth and History/Antigone's Legacy, Luce Irigaray
12. Antigone with(out) Jocaste, Bracha Ettinger
13. Autochthonous Antigone: Breaking Ground, Liz Appel
14. Antigone and her Brother: What Sort of Special Relationship?, Isabelle Torrance
15. Reclaiming Femininity: Antigone's 'Choice' in Art and Art History, Martina Meyer
4. Translations, Adaptations, and Performance
16. Reading `Antigone' in Translation: Text, Paratext, Intertext, Deborah Roberts
17. Speed and Tragedy in Cocteau and Sophocles, Sean Kirkland
18. Politicizing `Antigone', Erika Fischer-Lichte
19. From Ancient Greek Drama to Argentina's `Dirty War'. `Antigona Furiosa': on Bodies and the State, Florencia Nelli
20. Revolutionary Muse: Femi Osofisan's `Tegonni: An African Antigone', Astrid van Weyenberg
21. Performing `Antigone' in the Twenty-First Century, S. E. Wilmer