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Antigone's Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Politics of Humanism
Ist Teil von
New literary history, 2010-12, Vol.41 (1), p.1-33
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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(Is Michel's approach secularist and that of many humanist critics providential?) If humanists promote tragedy as their genre of choice, it is because they think tragedy renders clear the human spirit, exhibiting human willingness to sacrifice on behalf of a principle, commitment, or desire, or knowingly to accept one's implication in unchosen acts or defiantly to march to one's death with head held high or to refuse vengeance or even justice on behalf of love for another or perhaps even an ideal of self.3 Tragic characters die but their principles live on. Perhaps Zizek is right and there is no avoiding the to-ing and fro-ing whereby parodic reiteration yields to mere repetition, especially when our story's protagonist is not a mythic heroine but an imperfect person who takes up or is taken up by worthwhile causes but is then buffeted by giant media and turns out to be much smaller than the hopes we invest in her (as when Sheehan embraces Hugo Chávez, seems to flirt with anti-Semitism in her criticisms of the Iraq war, and leverages her personal pain into blunt criticism of U.S. foreign policy).