- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
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Part I: Sophocles' Antigone or The Invention of Politics: We the City - Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
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Part II D. A. F. de Sade's One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People - Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
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Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State - Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
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Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation - Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Chapter:
- (p.68) Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Source:
- Binding Violence
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter examines how Antigone embodies Athenian brotherhood, how her funeral rite expresses equality, and how her death is a cipher for the problem that any limitations on membership present to the logic of democratic equality.
Keywords: Antigone, Athenian brotherhood, funeral rites, equality, death
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
-
Part I: Sophocles' Antigone or The Invention of Politics: We the City - Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
-
Part II D. A. F. de Sade's One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People - Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
-
Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State - Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
-
Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation - Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index