Tragically Speaking: On the Use and Abuse of Theory for Life

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317 absence, xxxviii, 128, 138 Acampora, Christa Davis, 261n25 Achilles, 216, 288n6, 295n16; Socrates and, 147, 284n30 Adorno, Theodor W., 89, 266n16 Aeschylus, xxxii, 15–16, 45, 264n9; Agamemnon, 155, 244, 282n1; Niobe, 19; Persians, 298n37 The Aesthetics of Mimesis (Halliwell), 55, 56 afterlife, xxvii Agamben, Giorgio, 71, 75, 257n4; on Aristotle, 71, 274n16; on art collecting , 83; on art’s future, 87; on Kant, 85, 285n34; on modern art, 73, 75–76, 82, 83, 89; on Nietzsche, 84, 85; philosophical loyalties of, 70–71; on Plato, xxxiv, 62–66, 68, 71–72, 78–80, 88; on poetry, 53, 74, 275n18 Agamemnon (Aeschylus), 155, 244, 282n1 agency, xxvi, 38, 97, 107 Ajax, 155 alienation, xxxviii–xxxix, 85 Ali Pasha, 239, 300n44 allegory, 27, 52, 122 alterity, xxvi, xxxviii, 177, 187, 270n36; and freedom, 17; Levinas on, 231–32, 270n36; and truth, 107 ancient-modern relation, xxi–xxii, xxxviii, 25, 35, 43, 56; discontinuity in, xxi, 28, 29; as radical rift, xxviii, xxxii, 45, 264n15 Antigone, 171–208; and autonomy, 186, 187, 290n26; and blood kinship, 187, 192, 200–201, 264n9; Butler on, xxxvii, 171–72, 174, 176–78, 186, 191–92, 196, 287n1; and choice, 187–89, 191, 289–90n22; Creon and, 168, 182–83, 190–91, 199; and death, 38, 175, 191, 192, 194, 195–96, 206, 211, 230; and fate, 14, 197; and harmony of words and deeds, xxxvii, 188; Hegel on, 178, 181, 287n15, 288nn14– 15; Heidegger on, 193–94, 296n24; Hölderlin on, 12, 16, 17–19, 20; hubris of, 19–20, 190; as inspiration for philosophy, xxxvi–xxxvii; Ismene and, xxxix, 187–89, 289–90n22; and law, 119, 120, 137, 185, 198, 289n20; Loraux on, 178, 288n16; and nature, 39, 289n20; and Niobe myth, 17–18, 19; and Oedipus, 21; as parrhesiastic character, 110; and politics, 55, 176, Index 318 Index Antigone (continued) 177, 178, 179, 180–81, 226, 288n16; Polyneices and, 199, 290n27; and representation, 176–77, 178, 179–80; secrecy of, 207; and self, 186–87, 189–90; and strife, 225; and temporality , 14, 198, 201, 205; tragic nature of, xxxvi, 177–78; transparency of, xxxvii, 208; uncanniness of, 201, 225 Antigone’s Claim (Butler), 176, 177 Antiope (Euripides), 44 Apollo, 13, 263n7; Foucault on, 115, 280n17; Socrates and, 117, 142, 144 Apology (Plato), 117, 119, 139–56, 190, 279n11; as tragedy, xxxv, 283n24 Apostolopoulos, Apostolos, 267n21, 269n31 appearance, 109, 280n16 Aristotle, xxxii; Agamben on, 71, 274n16; Poetics, 45, 274n16; on praxis, 275n18; on tragedy, 14 Arkadi, 240–45, 302–3nn48–53 art: abstract, 275n19; collecting, 82–83; contemporary view of, 54–55, 57, 71, 73, 75, 82–83; divine origin of, 63–64, 72, 80; and freedom, xxxiv, 56, 65, 83; future of, 87–88; Greek, 8, 15, 21, 24–25, 53, 57, 87, 263n4, 275n23, 279n15; Hegel on, xxxiii, xxxiv, 22, 53, 55, 58–62, 67, 69, 70, 87–89, 264n12, 276n29; and imitation, 6, 7, 66, 67, 72, 73, 79, 81, 275n24; Kant and, 58, 82, 84; and metaphysics, 87, 276n29; modern, xxxiv, 73, 75–76, 81–82, 84, 85, 89; and nature, 6, 13, 57, 58–59, 74, 81; Nietzsche on, 49; origin and originality in, 76–77, 79; and philosophy, xxxiii, 55, 57, 70, 72; Plato on, xxxiii, 53–58, 61, 62–69, 71–74, 77–81, 88–89, 90; and poetry, 8, 52, 63, 77–78, 80, 89; and politics, 72, 73, 75, 82, 87; sensuous aspects of, 61, 89; spectators of, 84, 85; state and, 54, 61; and truth, 56–57, 67, 72, 74, 75, 76, 81, 88–89, 90 Athenian society, 110, 180, 285–86n6, 291n28 Auerbach, Eric, 267n22 authenticity, xxxviii, 73, 216 autonomy, xxiv, 185, 265n19; Antigone and, 186, 187, 290n26; of art, xxxiv, 60 Babylon, 286n10 The Bacchae (Euripides), xxv, xxxvi, 115, 157–68, 227, 285n3; Dionysus in, 157–58, 161, 162, 163–64, 166, 167, 286nn8–10, 286n12; duplicity in, 161, 162–63; parrhesia in, 112, 113, 161; summary of, 157–58; as tragedy, 158, 164–65, 285n3 Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 289n20 Baracchi, Claudia, 138, 281n8, 291n31 Barouxakis, Ioannis, 302n50 Barthes, Roland, 262n27, 265n17 Bartholdy, J. L. S., 300–301n45 Bataille, Georges, 257n4, 263n6, 292n33; on community, 228–29; on sovereignty and politics, 290n26 Baudelaire, Charles, 273n5 beauty, 131, 229, 282n15; Hegel on, 59, 67; Plato on, 59–60, 67, 134, 137; and rhetoric, 131; and truth, 67 Being and Time (Heidegger), 230 Bekir Pasha, 239 belief, 102, 104, 163 Benardete, Seth, xxxvi, 135, 271n47, 283n19, 289n18; on Antigone, 194, 199, 201...