{"product_id":"private-lives-public-deaths-antigone-and-the-invention-of-individuality-9780823251322","title":"Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan Strauss\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Private Lives, Public Deaths\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Strauss shows how Sophocles' tragedy \u003ci\u003eAntigone \u003c\/i\u003ecrystallized 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 that Antigone's tragedy, and perhaps all classical tragedy, represents a failure to satisfy this longing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo the extent that the value of a living individual remains an open question, what Sophocles attempted to imagine still escapes our understanding. Antigone is, in this sense, a text not from the past but from our future.","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47575283859607,"sku":"9780823251322","price":11391.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780823251322.webp?v=1774897675","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/private-lives-public-deaths-antigone-and-the-invention-of-individuality-9780823251322","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}