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Antigone's Sisters

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An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.In Antigone's Sisters, Lenart Škof explores the power of lo...
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An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.

In Antigone's Sisters, Lenart Škof explores the power of love in our world-stronger than violence and, ultimately, stronger even than death. Focusing on Antigone, Savitri, and Mary, the book offers an investigation into various goddesses and feminine figures from a variety of philosophical, mythological, theological, and literary contexts. The book also elaborates on the feminine aspects of selected concepts from modern philosophical texts, such as the Matrix in Jakob Böhme, Clara in F. W. J. Schelling, beyng in Martin Heidegger, chóra in Jacques Derrida, and breath in Luce Irigaray's thought. Drawing on Bracha M. Ettinger's concept of matrixiality, Škof proposes a new matrixial theory of philosophy, cosmology, and theology of love. Despite its many usages and appropriations, love remains a neglected topic within Western philosophy. With its new interpretation of Antigone and related readings of Irigaray, Kristeva, and Ettinger, Antigone's Sisters aims to identify some of the reasons for this forgetting of love, and to show that it is only love that can bring peace to our ethically disrupted world.

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Price: £72.50
Pages: 248
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Series: SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
Publication Date: 01 May 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781438482736
Format: Hardcover
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"Using matrixiality as a key concept, Lenart Škof offers an ethical horizon through new insights into Antigone and her genealogical 'sisters,' daringly comparing Antigone's task with Jesus's redemptory mission. The matrixial core of love, reaching the ontological margins of birth and death and inaugurating a matrixial covenant, is the heart of this original conceptualization of an ethical core in the bridging between mythology and theology for our contemporary humanity." — Bracha L. Ettinger, author of The Matrixial Borderspace and Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics

Acknowledgments

Prelude: The Matrix of Love / Ettingerian Matrixial Web

Part I: Cosmology / Theology of Love

1. Antigone / Savitri

2. Metis / Lepa Vida

3. Bethlehemite Concubine / Mary

Interlude: Interval / Time of Love

Part II: Philosophy / Ontology of Love

4. Clara / The Matrix

5. Beyng / Sister

6. Irigaray / Breath

Postlude: Jesus / Antigone

Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author