Antigone or The Irony of the Tribe

Sophocles's Antigone continues to attract attention for its portrayal of the themes of moral agency and sexual difference. In this paper I argue that the contradictory factors which constitute Antigone's social identity work against the possibility of assessing her actions as either "virtuous" or not. I challenge readings of the play which suggest either that individual moral agency is sexually neutral or that women's action is necessarily and simply in direct opposition to the interests of the public sphere.

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Antigone's Mirrors: Reflections on Moral Madness

Pritchard¹

1992

“…Tina Chanter explores in some detail the connection of these epigraphs to Irigaray's reading of Hegel's reading of Antigone, in Chanter (1995, 82–89). For a consideration of Irigaray vis‐à‐vis Antigone and this “eternal irony,” see Féral (1978).…”

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Antigone's Nature

Robert¹

2010

Antigone fascinates G. W. F. Hegel and Luce Irigaray, both of whom turn to her in their explorations and articulations of ethics. Hegel and Irigaray make these re-turns to Antigone through the double and related lenses of nature and sexual difference. This essay investigates these figures of Antigone and the accompanying ethical accounts of nature and sexual difference as a way of examining Irigaray's complex relation to and creative uses of Hegel's thought.

“…9 9 See Feral (1978, 8), Moi (1986, 13), Jardine (1985, 228), and Nye (1987, 673) for sympathetic discussions of Kristeva's subject and its relationship to feminism. …”

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Reconstituting the Subject: Feminism, Modernism, and Postmodernism

Hekman¹

1991

Political agency is vital to the formulation of a feminist politics so feminists have attempted to create a subject that eschews the sexism of the Cartesian subject while at the same time retaining agency. This paper examines some of the principal feminist attempts to reconstitute the subject along these lines. It assesses the success of these attempts in light of the question of whether the subject is a necessary component of feminist theory and practice.