Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality

by Jonathan Strauss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823251330
• ISBN13: 9780823251339
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"