Mario Telò

Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler's writing. It shows how Butler's mode of reading tragedy-and, crucially, reading tragically-offers a distinctive ethico-political response to the harrowing dilemmas of our current moment.

Deeply committed both to critical theory and political activism, Judith Butler is one of the most influential intellectuals today. Their ideas have touched the lives of many people, both readers and those who have never heard Butler's name. In encompassing gender performativity and sexual difference, vulnerability and precarity, disidentification and bodily interdependency, as well as the politics of protest, Butler's work is often predicated on a strong engagement with or proximity to Greek tragedy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350323391
• Artikelnr.: 70065204

Autorenporträt

Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Breaking Apart: Greek Tragedy
Judith Butler
and Critique 1. Infinite Heterology: Antigone 2. Trans-parentality
Abortion
Social Ecology Bacchae 3. The Justice of Rage: Eumenides Notes Bibliography Index