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085891
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2009.
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This paper reads Sophocles' Antigone contextually, as an exploration of the politics of lamentation and larger conflicts these stand for. Antigone defies Creon's sovereign decree that her brother Polynices, who attacked the city with a foreign army and died in battle, be dishonoured - left unburied. But the play is not about Polynices' treason. It explores the clash in 5th century Athens between Homeric/ elite and democratic mourning practices. The former (represented by Antigone) memorialize the unique individuality of the dead, focus on the family's loss and bereavement and call for vengeance. The latter (represented by Creon) memorialize the dead's contribution to the immortal polis and emphasize (as in the Funeral Oration) the replaceability of those lost. Each economy of mourning sees the other as excessive and politically unstable. The remainders of both, managed by way of exception institutions such as tragedy and the Dionysian Festival, continue to haunt us now.
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051150
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Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001.
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xi, 204p.
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069108885
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075195
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New Delhi, Oxford, 2006.
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xiii, 883p.
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0199270031
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049360
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Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1993.
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xiv, 269p.
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Contestations
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0801427959
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101849
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2011.
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"If we wish to do justice to the conflicts that surround us and lead to one tragedy
after another, we can do no better than to keep the example of Antigone
constantly in mind," says James Tully in Strange Multiplicity.
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Sophocles' lamenting title character that draws Tully, nor is it the playwright's
tragic message. It is Haemon, the "exemplary citizen of the intercultural common ground" (23), who sees the justice of Antigone's claim and pleads with his
father, Creon, for restraint.
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Sophocles' play is unmentioned in the two volumes
of Public Philosophy in a New Key but, like Haemon, Tully here positions
himself between the worlds of dissidence and governance, speaking to the
powerful in soft reasonable tones on behalf of subaltern subjects, and arguing
that we can break out of seemingly tragic impasses if we take instruction from
the "rough ground" of politics and the pacific ways of nature
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