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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Private Lives, Public Deaths
• Author: Jonathan Strauss
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780823251339
• ISBN: 0823251330
• ID: 01287435
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 153 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2013

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