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

Index

209 i n d e x abstraction. See disinterestedness Adkins, Arthur, 20 Aeschylus: birth of, 2, 4–5, 150n11; Eumenides, 12, 17, 20–22, 33, 42, 70, 107, 111, 122, 156n8, 157n23; Oresteia, 1–2, 9, 17–22, 33, 112; Seven Against Thebes, 13–14, 26, 79, 85, 144 affect: animality and, 105–6; Antigone and, 126–39; the city’s founding and, 79–81; definitions of, 105–6; desire and, 8, 13–14, 86–92, 96–114, 118, 127, 130–39, 170n15; epitaphioi logoi and, 44–47, 64; gendering of, 13, 122–24; individuation and, 8, 85, 115–16, 126, 169n42, 191n30, 192n31; laws regarding corpses’ treatment and, 63–65, 72, 83–84; love as, 83–84, 105, 129; mourning rites and, 101–2, 114–17, 120–24; as punishment, 80–81 Agamben, Giorgio, 83 Agōn logōn, 1, 49, 132 Ajax (Sophocles), 49–50 Alcibiades (Plato), 13, 62–63, 176n10 Alcyone and Ceyx (myth), 14, 119–24, 138, 191n30, 192n31 Alexiou, Margaret, 30 allegorical figuration, 108–13 Althusser, Louis, 155n37 Antigone (Sophocles): affective drives in, 132–39; Athenian politics and, 40–42; burial rites in, 50–58, 94; corpses in, 49–51, 103; Hegel’s reading of, 7–11, 23, 25–27, 30–33, 37, 51, 54–59, 62–63, 66, 85–86, 88–90, 101, 115, 122, 125, 127–29, 137, 152n26, 159n35; history of criticism of, 7–9, 12, 125–29, 131, 172n22; individuality in, 6, 12, 41–42, 85, 115, 125–26, 130–39, 160n56; law of the family and, 37, 81, 83–84; philia in, 91–92; political state’s birth and, 5–6, 16; synopsis of, 143–44 “Antigone’s Ghost” (Oliver), 175n1 Aristotle, 85, 91, 96, 190n24; Nichomachean Ethics, 20, 168n38; Rhetoric, 12, 46–47, 168n39 art. See tragedy Artaud, Antonin, 78 Athens: Antigone’s legacy in, 16; burial rites in, 63, 116–17, 150n14, 176n7; democracy and, 30; epitaphioi logoi in, 12, 70, 86, 96, 100, 104, 116, 195n40; individuality and, 2, 40–48; justice and, 1–2, 62–69; origins of, 1–2. See also the city; political state 210 Index atimia (punishment), 69, 72, 80, 82 Aulagnier, Piera, 196n43 Badiou, Alain, 6, 155n38 bastard reasoning, 75–76, 107–9, 115, 188n11 Basterra, Gabriela, 174n30 Bataille, Georges, 9 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 66, 177n17 Being and Time (Heidegger), 185n48. See also death; Heidegger, Martin biological individuality, 76, 82, 87–89, 122, 126–29, 161n65 Bremmer, Jan N., 151n15, 165n18, 166n19, 190n23 Brunschwig, Jacques, 6 burial rites: Antigone and, 56; individuality and, 2–3, 116, 169n42; Plato on, 40–41, 63–64; private-, 4–5. See also epitaphioi logoi (ritual) Butler, Judith, 8, 56, 90, 132, 183n17 Carcopino, Jérôme, 70 Cerameikos (cemetery), 3, 40–41, 104, 116 Ceyx (character), 119–24, 138, 191n30, 192n31 Chanter, Tina, 8, 14, 90, 128–29, 152n23 Chōra, 74–79, 107, 113–15, 118, 179n38, 180n46 citizenship: death and, 43–45, 81, 104; epitaphioi logoi and, 40–48, 86, 96, 100, 104; family’s relation to, 12, 83; Haemon’s relation to, 135–36; legal status and, 47–48, 70; maternity tropes and, 42–46; philia and, 93; subjectivity and, 86–87; tragedy and, 16–17, 79. See also the city; political state the city: corpses and, 50–61, 68, 82–83, 124; death and, 2, 4–5, 25–26, 35, 43, 45–48, 58–60, 80–82, 104, 115–17; drama’s ritual function and, 16–17; epitaphioi logoi and, 40–48, 86; the family and, 20–22, 26–28, 31–32, 83, 87–90; gender and, 132; the individual and, 1–2, 7–8, 19–21; individuality’s relation to, 28–29, 87, 99–100, 107–9, 135–36, 168n39; maternity tropes and, 42–43, 77; origins of, 17, 19–22, 35, 70–71, 73, 76, 80–81, 103–4, 109, 123; philia and, 92–94, 98, 135–37; philosophical knowledge and, 109–13, 185n47; tragedy and, 16–35, 79, 114, 116 Cleisthenes, 4, 68, 70–71, 80, 103 consciousness, 51–63, 66, 71–79, 83, 101–2, 106–7, 109–10 corpses: affect and, 101–2, 114–16, 129; criminality and, 63–65, 83; definitions of, 49; expulsions of, 4–5, 50–51, 58–62, 103, 108–9, 129; figuration function of, 13, 54–56, 58, 70, 82–83, 101, 103, 110, 114–15, 118–20, 173n26; individuality and, 52–54, 108, 115–16; laws regarding, 62–68, 113–14; love’s relation to, 105, 118–20...