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Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular intervention can confront?
Žižek''s rewriting of this classic play confronts these issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about them, but by imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial moment, the action takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run, Lola, Run or of Brecht''s learning plays.
A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who ar

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A Fascinating read, and the language positively flies off the page. * Terry Eagleton *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Play Postscript Index

Antigone

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
      Published 20 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9781474269377
      978-1474269377
      ISBN-10 1474269370
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      Creative writing Theatre studies Philosophy Slavoj Zizek Books by Slavoj Zizek

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular intervention can confront?
      Žižek''s rewriting of this classic play confronts these issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about them, but by imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial moment, the action takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run, Lola, Run or of Brecht''s learning plays.
      A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who ar

      Trade Review
      A Fascinating read, and the language positively flies off the page. * Terry Eagleton *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Introduction Play Postscript Index

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