{"product_id":"let-them-rot-antigones-parallax-9781531501044","title":"Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003entigone\u003c\/i\u003e. The general perspective from which the book is written could be summarized with this simple question: What is it about the figure of Antigone that keeps haunting us? Why do all these readings and rewritings keep emerging? To what kind of always contemporary contradiction does the need, the urge to reread and reimagine \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e--in all kinds of contexts and languages--correspond? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs key anchor points of this general interrogation, three particular \"obsessions\" have driven the author's thinking and writing about \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e. First is the issue of violence. The violence in \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e is the opposite of \"graphic\" as we have come to know it in movies and in the media; rather, it is sharp and piercing, it goes straight to the bone. It is the violence of language, the violence of principles, the violence of desire, the violence of subjectivity. Then there is the issue of funerary rites and their role in appeasing the specific \"undeadness\" that seems to be the other side of human life, its irreducible undercurrent that death alone cannot end and put to rest. This issue prompted the author to look at the relationship between language, sexuality, death, and \"second death.\" The third issue, which constitutes the focal point of the book, is Antigone's statement that if it were her children or husband lying unburied out there, she would let them rot and not take it upon herself to defy the decree of the state. The author asks, how does this exclusivist, singularizing claim (she would do it only for Polyneices), which she uses to describe the \"unwritten law\" she follows, tally with Antigone's universal appeal and compelling power? Attempting to answer this leads to the question of what this particular (Oedipal) family's misfortune, of which Antigone chooses to be the guardian, shares with the general condition of humanity. Which in turn forces us to confront the seemingly self-evident question: \"What is incest?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet Them Rot \u003c\/i\u003eis Alenka Zupančič's absorbing and succinct guided tour of the philosophical and psychoanalytic issues arising from the Theban trilogy. Her original and surprising intervention into the broad and prominent field of study related to Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eAntigone \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the classical text's ongoing relevance and invites a wide readership to become captivated by its themes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15231531\"\u003eAlenka Zupančič\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531501044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531501044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI040000\"\u003eMovements | Critical Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PSY\"\u003ePsychology\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PSY026000\"\u003eMovements | Psychoanalysis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT006000\"\u003eSemiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlenka Zupančič \u003c\/b\u003eis a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist. She is a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Sex?\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eThe Odd One In: On Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eEthics of the Real: Kant and Lacan \u003c\/i\u003e(2000).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44488479768813,"sku":"9781531501044","price":23.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_423df26b-2395-4834-9e9d-80476b8bb526.jpg?v=1700854233","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/let-them-rot-antigones-parallax-9781531501044","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}