Reading Greek tragedy with Judith Butler /
Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy," a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae and Aeschylus's Eumenides, this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2024].
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| Series: | Classical receptions in twentieth-century writing.
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| Summary: | Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy," a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae and Aeschylus's Eumenides, this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler's writing. It shows how Butler's mode of reading tragedy and, crucially, reading tragically, offers a distinctive ethico-political response to the harrowing dilemmas of our current moment. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350323384 1350323381 9781350323421 135032342X |