Can I read Antigone on EtoBox?

Antigone by Slavoj Žižek is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.

What is Antigone about?

Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular intervention can confront? Žižek's rewriting of this classic play confronts these issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about them, but by imagining an Antigone in which, at a crucial moment, the action takes a different turn, an Antigone along the lines of Run, Lola, Run or of Brecht's learning plays. A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who are interested in reading and watching Antigone in an entirely new way.

Who reads Antigone?

Author

Slavoj Žižek

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Puiblishing Plc

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474269377

Category

performing arts

Subjects

Philosophy, Drama, Literary Criticism

Rating

3.8 / 5 (10,726 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14