Antigone nell’agorà: emozioni e politica
Why Antigone over again? Whence her authority (like that of other Greek myths) in the imaginary of the Western world? Wherefrom her return with an almost obsessive intensity in 20th-century art and thought? Antigone, a woman, but of royal descent, with her reg...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2007, Volume: 8, Pages: 9-26 |
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| Summary: | Why Antigone over again? Whence her authority (like that of other Greek myths) in the imaginary of the Western world? Wherefrom her return with an almost obsessive intensity in 20th-century art and thought? Antigone, a woman, but of royal descent, with her regal nature and weakness, takes upon herself – and becomes the symbol of – a ‘series of contradictions’, which continue to torment humanity and history. Our questions originate here: how to act when the law of the particular community one lives in contrasts with a universal order of justice? How to handle the confl ict that consequently arises between those who detain power and those who decide to retain a different and more ample form of justice? And why and how do human beings – weak and strong nature in one – live these confl icts? After having dealt with some philosophical readings, the present paper tackles the ethical and the political problems, re-interrogating Antigone on one of the central topics: the individual faced with a more or less authoritarian state and more or less authoritarian institutions. A new and improved way of conceiving ethics and politics can originate from Antigone, due to a kind of moral and anthropological revolution, which justifi es our hypothesis of presenting Antigone as a fi gure of diversity and a paradigm of conflict, in view of a different political practice, which we will see exemplified in the philia. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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