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Paperback Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality Book
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ISBN: 0823251330

ISBN13: 9780823251339

Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality

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In Private Lives, Public Deaths, Jonathan Strauss shows how Sophocles' tragedy Antigone crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment--fifth-century Athens--into one idea: the value of a single, living person. That idea existed, however, only as a powerful but unconscious desire. Drawing on classical studies, Hegel, and contemporary philosophical interpretations of this pivotal drama, Strauss argues...

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