日時：2016年7月3日（日）14：30～17：30
場所：中央大学 駿河台記念館 580号室（駿河台記念館へのアクセスはこちら：http://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/access/surugadai/）
報告者：ピーター・ソーントン
タイトル：On Bonnie Honig’s Reading of Antigone
概 要：Antigone has stood for many things since Hegel’s reading of Sophocles’ classic play in The Phenomenology of Spirit. For champions of universal human rights, Antigone’s ethical defiance of Creon’s political law represents a heroic devotion to basic familial rights in the face of arbitrary state power. In contrast, for anti-humanists Antigone is a paragon of pure, pre-symbolic desire that flouts the possibility of humanist political engagement: Jacques Lacan famously admired her monstrous desire for death that defies all meaning and signification, and Slavoj Žižek has focused on her total and absolute “no” that transcends Creon’s political laws. Not completely dissimilarly, Nicole Loraux saw in Antigone’s death cry an extra-linguistic expression of pain that put her, again, beyond politics. And for Judith Butler, Antigone’s laments—even as they point to the “limits of representation and representability”—mark the eruption of “unspeakable loss” into public life and serve as a “mortal humanist” pre-political basis for politics. Against such anti-political readings of Sophocles’ play, in “Antigone’s Two Laws” Bonnie Honig recognizes the overtly agonistic, political position occupied by the tragic hero. For Honig, Antigone—the protagonist (“primary actor”) of Sophocles’ play—speaks and acts agonistically against Creon’s state authority. In this talk, I will review Honig’s reading of Antigone and discuss how it may have wider implications for recent revivals of humanism witnessed in various fields. In particular, I will discuss its relevance for the field of the ethics of care—developed by feminist thinkers such as Joan Tronto, Eva Feder Kittay, Virginia Held, Elizabeth V. Spelman, and more recently Fabienne Brugère—which has much in common with Butler’s ethics of mourning in its critiques of Kantian liberalism and Lockean social contract theory.
コア・テクスト：Bonnie Honig (2010) "Antigone's Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Politics of Humanism”
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主催： 中央大学人文科学研究所「性と文化」研究チーム
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