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Rossi, Miguel Angel
Rodríguez Rial, Gabriela
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spa
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247 p.
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Abstract
Sophocles' tragedy Antigone was staged for the first time around 443/441 BC. C. From then until today, the echoes of Antigone's claim resound with overwhelming vitality and power. Taking this current situation as a starting point, this thesis offers an analysis of the way in which some of the main problems that Athenian democracy faced at its peak, permeate the dramatic text of Sophocles.
From the reading and analysis of a set of primary sources, this research will reconstruct three of the most significant questions around which the official democratic ideology was plotted: the problem of the "masculine" and the "feminine", the problem of nómos and the problem of tyranny. Once this ideological framework has been established, Antigone will be analyzed trying to identify what continuities and ruptures this text produced with respect to the framework of discourses that made up the official civic ideology.
The fifth century B.C. was a period of crisis for Athens. After the Ephialtes’ reforms, the consolidation of the demos´ power implied the radicalization of a transformation that called into question the foundations that had cemented citizen life until then. In that curmoment of profound changes, tragedy emerged as a discursive practice that, from within democracy, proposed to reflect on the most pressing issues of political life. Despite being an “official” discursive practice, tragedy developed its own modality that decisively differentiated it from the rest. Starting from this assumption, this thesis will verify that, without ever denying the principles of democracy, the tragic discourse stressed many of the axioms that the official ideology sought to consolidate. The tragedy not only revealed problems that democracy preferred to silence, but also made use of a poetic form that distinguished it as a privileged instance of political reflection. From this work, this thesis will provide answers about the relevance of Antigone for current political thought.
From the reading and analysis of a set of primary sources, this research will reconstruct three of the most significant questions around which the official democratic ideology was plotted: the problem of the "masculine" and the "feminine", the problem of nómos and the problem of tyranny. Once this ideological framework has been established, Antigone will be analyzed trying to identify what continuities and ruptures this text produced with respect to the framework of discourses that made up the official civic ideology.
The fifth century B.C. was a period of crisis for Athens. After the Ephialtes’ reforms, the consolidation of the demos´ power implied the radicalization of a transformation that called into question the foundations that had cemented citizen life until then. In that curmoment of profound changes, tragedy emerged as a discursive practice that, from within democracy, proposed to reflect on the most pressing issues of political life. Despite being an “official” discursive practice, tragedy developed its own modality that decisively differentiated it from the rest. Starting from this assumption, this thesis will verify that, without ever denying the principles of democracy, the tragic discourse stressed many of the axioms that the official ideology sought to consolidate. The tragedy not only revealed problems that democracy preferred to silence, but also made use of a poetic form that distinguished it as a privileged instance of political reflection. From this work, this thesis will provide answers about the relevance of Antigone for current political thought.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales