Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 30. Mai 2024
272 Seiten
978-1-350-32340-7 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
Deeply committed both to critical theory and political activism, Judith Butler is one of the most influential intellectuals today. Their ideas have touched the lives of many people, both readers and those who have never heard Butler's name. In encompassing gender performativity and sexual difference, vulnerability and precarity, disidentification and bodily interdependency, as well as the politics of protest, Butler's work is often predicated on a strong engagement with or proximity to Greek tragedy.
Deeply committed both to critical theory and political activism, Judith Butler is one of the most influential intellectuals today. Their ideas have touched the lives of many people, both readers and those who have never heard Butler's name. In encompassing gender performativity and sexual difference, vulnerability and precarity, disidentification and bodily interdependency, as well as the politics of protest, Butler's work is often predicated on a strong engagement with or proximity to Greek tragedy.
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Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
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4 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-32340-7 (9781350323407)
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Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy (2020).
Inhalt
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Breaking Apart: Greek Tragedy, Judith Butler, and Critique
1. Infinite Heterology: Antigone
2. Trans-parentality, Abortion, Social Ecology Bacchae
3. The Justice of Rage: Eumenides
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Breaking Apart: Greek Tragedy, Judith Butler, and Critique
1. Infinite Heterology: Antigone
2. Trans-parentality, Abortion, Social Ecology Bacchae
3. The Justice of Rage: Eumenides
Notes
Bibliography
Index
