{"product_id":"antigone-9781474269377","title":"Antigone","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if both Antigone and Creon are part of a problem that only a popular intervention can confront?\u003cbr\u003eZizek's rewriting of this classic play confronts these issues in a practical way: not by theorizing about them, but by imagining an \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e in which, at a crucial moment, the action takes a different turn, an \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e along the lines of \u003ci\u003eRun, Lola, Run\u003c\/i\u003e or of Brecht's learning plays. \u003cbr\u003eA brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who are interested in reading and watching \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e in an entirely new way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is international director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50925859537170,"sku":"9781474269377","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_56b193eb-809b-4aa9-adb3-ff5e222107d7.jpg?v=1738979278","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/antigone-9781474269377","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}