https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/72 Archives fr mar., 28 nov. 2023 10:44:37 +0100 mer., 22 janv. 2025 21:10:27 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/72 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/78 mar., 28 nov. 2023 10:58:13 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/78 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/75 mar., 28 nov. 2023 10:55:01 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/75 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/79 Antigone’s reading is filled with philosophical and juridical implications. Sofocle’s work is the pretext for a reflection about the lack of mediation between the law in general and the peculiarity of the actual instances in the context of the classical Hellenism. Antigone stages the battle between the nomos and the daily life, unveiling the lack of the ancient Greek poleis’ “social thought”. The chance for a mediation between universal and particular differentiates the “hard” approach of the law and the “sweet” approach of the ius. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:05:19 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/79 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/92 The essay attributes to the figure of Antigone a destituent power capable of sovverting a idea of politics based on death. In this sense, Antigone looks like not only as anti-dialectical figure, but as political figure too; in fact, she is not fighting against the Creon, as Hegel declares, she is leaving rather the weight of its violence: Antigone is not against power but she is far from it. In this way she shows to the chorus - the people of Thebes - her uncle’s tyrannical power. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:12:55 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/92 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/97 If the raising is a power, is it the power of what? How does it manifest? Towards which direction does it develop? Is it by any chance a power to end it all? It is the thought of Giorgio Agamben that «raises» these issues and, paradoxically, it is also the one that must «be raised» to answer these questions. Definitely, it is the one that is needed to be inquired for grasping how the raising can be actually translated as the power of-non, namely the power of non-doing. In order to do that, the contribution goes through the work of Agamben and – at the same time – it goes around the notion of inoperativity shaped by the author, which is bound to the idea of the power of non-doing. In particular, the article outlines the terms in which the ethic of the inoperativity – conveyed by the act of refusing – it already implies a politics of inoperativity. A politics that must be thought of as purely destituent: able therefore to exhibit the emptiness of political power. Taken literally, this ability, however, ends up for being vain, just as it turns out to be when the inoperativity is simply assumed as the opposite of the opera (work) and its ultimate place is contemplative life. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:22:59 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/97 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/104 The interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone which can be found in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar on The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959-1960) clarifies the role of the death drive in Freudian metapsychology. Death drive is not the psychological counterpart of neither physical science (especially thermodynamics) or biological science. Rather, on the one hand Freudian Todestrieb reveals the historical dimension of human being, on the other hand it gives a new direction to human desire. This leads to important consequences concerning both ethics and politics. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:27:13 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/104 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/111 Antigone breaks with parental rule although, in order to go beyond all identities and defend every humiliated body. Her desire is the symbolic recovery of Jocasta’s body and the birth of a non-birth girl. Thus, how happens this birth of a non-birth subject ? In order to answer this question we run through Marquis de Sade desire’s fantasy and the zig zag of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan too. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:30:46 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/111 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/120 The Italian company Motus has developped a project named Syrma Antigones for two years. In this project, Motus didn’t intend to offer a new version of the Greek tragedy but aimed to search traces left behind by the rebellious protagonist in the contemporary world, to investigate through experimental performances about her possible survival. This paper analyses the chosen performative modes in this archeological experiment, from the fragmentary structure to the confrontation between theatre and political reality, and exploration of a queer dramaturgy based on fraternity, against State violence and the law of kinship. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:35:48 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/120 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/127 The article outlines the terms in which the ethics of translation is always a political act. Beyond the possibility of nationalistic identity, the language is always a meeting with the other, the different, the incompatible. Through Hölderlin’s reflections on his own version of Sophocles’ Antigone, the essay dwells particularly on the ethical implications of the “ruin”-theme that Antigone represents for the polis and that Hölderlin performs on his own language. mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:40:28 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/127 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/133 mar., 28 nov. 2023 11:45:02 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/133 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/139 mar., 28 nov. 2023 14:02:45 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/139 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/141 mar., 28 nov. 2023 14:07:28 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/141 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/143 Written between 1916 and 1917, between the battlefields of the First World War and the admission to a war psychiatric hospital, Walter Hasenclever’s Antigone provides an ideal ground – even if extremely problematic – to problematize the impact of the figure at the center of Sophocles’ tragedy on modern German culture and literature. Placed at an almost symmetrical distance between Hölderlin’s famous translation/rewriting and the Brechtian reworking of the years after the Second World War, Hasenclever’s drama hints at new potential meanings and transformations of the Sophocles myth, without succeeding in carrying out its potentialities. Beyond the historicalliterary categories, the aporias of this rewriting of Sophocles tragedy can constitute, today, the main reason for a re-reading of this drama. mar., 28 nov. 2023 14:14:21 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/143 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/150 The paper explores three versions of Antigone staged in Ireland in 1984: Antigone: The Riot Act by Tom Paulin; Antigone: a version by Brendan Kennelly and Antigone by Carl Aidan Mathews. Rewriting, adapting or translating classics can represent a counterdiscoursive strategy used in crucial moment of a country’s history. In the three Irish plays Antigone’s persona springs out of the confrontation/opposition with both Creon (the institutional opponent) and Ismene (a sort of Antigone’s double). In the framework of Ireland as a postcolonial context, the paper investigates how this confrontation/opposition fits in Irish politics in the 80s. mar., 28 nov. 2023 14:18:03 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/150 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/156 Antigon is a figure which inspired Modern Philosophy since Hegel and Hölderlin, up to 20th-century interpretations, such as those proposed by Heidegger and Bultmann – the latter emphasizing even the broadly speaking theological relevance of this figure. In the present article, we shall focus on two contemporary readings of Sophocles’ tragedy inspired by this Greek mythological figure – the first concerning a movie, L’intrusa (Leonardo Di Costanzo, 2017), and the second conerning a theater representation (Federico Tiezzi, 2018). In the former case, the movie is actually not immediately inspired by this tragic figure. It seems, however, to be profoundly bound to its political meaning. Giovanna and Rita, the two protagonists, can be seen as two different Antigones: on the one hand, the latter claims for hospitality and fogiveness to the enemy like the Classical Antigone; on the other hand, the former creates a realm where justice reigns, while being not able, however, to gramt hospitality to the enemy for this very reason, since she has to protect her own community. In Tiezzi’s representation, the ethical themes of the tragedy emerges more clearly. The tension is created here between Antigone and Tiresias – the former being the victim, while the latter is the prophet who recalls the king and the community to the their ethics. Tiezzi is more radical than Di Costanzo: there is no space for an even corrupted political space after the death of the collective ethics. mar., 28 nov. 2023 14:21:11 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/156