Antigone

is a picture of ethical life in which individual action is a moment of difference within a self-restoring unity.

for Hegel. Antigone is a picture of ethical life in which individual action is a moment of difference within a self-restoring unity (Hegel 1977:260-).

is an allegory for the crisis of kinship, the crisis over which social arrangements can be recognized as legitimate love. Antigone refuses to obey any law that refuse public recognition of her loss.

For Butler, Antigone is 'an allegory for the crisis of kinship: which social arrangements can be recognized as legitimate love, and which human losses can be explicitly grieved as real and consequential loss' . . . Antigone refuses to obey any law that refuse public recognition of her loss.

is not, for instance, the 'conscientious objector'. Rather she experiences this imperative as immediately and self-evidently operative in the objective world (at the idea of her brother getting his body picked at by vultures).

for Hegel, Antigone is not, for instance, the 'conscientious objector' who takes her defiance of the civil law to be justified on the basis of her inalienable individual right to heed only the voice of her own rational conscious. For as an ethical agent, she does not experience herself, in distinction to the world or to other selves, as the ground of the imperative to bury, but rather experiences this imperative as immediately and self-evidently operative in the objective world: the very idea of her brother's body being picked at by vultures is itself, as an objective possibility, an immediate, immanently meaningful call mobilizing her into action, activating within her own arms the felt necessity of mediating this otherwise indifferent process by her own efforts.'

is the ideal embodiment of a principle, recognizing its opposite in its own actuality.

for Hegel. Antigone is not merely the perfect tragedy... its heroine is the ideal embodiment of a principle 'recognizing its opposite in its own actuality.'

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