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The Antigone complex : ethics and the invention of feminine desire / / Cecilia Sjoholm



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Autore: Sjoholm Cecilia Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Antigone complex : ethics and the invention of feminine desire / / Cecilia Sjoholm Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina: 170/.82
Soggetto topico: Feminist ethics
Desire (Philosophy)
Femininity (Philosophy)
Antigone (Greek mythology)
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Morality and the invention of feminine desire -- Sexuality versus recognition : feminine desire in the ethical order -- The purest poem : Heidegger's Antigone -- From Oedipus to Antigone : revisiting the question of feminine desire -- Family politics/family ethics : Butler, Lacan, and the thing beyond the object.
Sommario/riassunto: What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules. Sjöholm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of Antigone by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. This book introduces the concept of the "Antigone complex" in order to illuminate the obscure and multifaceted question of feminine desire, which has given rise to the fascination of generations of philosophers and other theoreticians, as well as readers and spectators. At the same time the book argues for a notion of desire that is intrinsically related to ethics. The ethical question posed by Antigone, and explored in the book, is: what determines those actions that one must do, as opposed to those that one ought to do?
Titolo autorizzato: The Antigone complex  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-6726-2
1-4294-8188-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817621603321
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