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The Antinomy of the Law

Gerhard Poppenberg
The book examines the literary representation of the myth of Orestes in ancient Greek tragedy and in modern French literature. The treatment of Orestes in the Oresteia of Aes-chylus is interpreted as the offspring of what is supposed to be the Orestes complex. Sartres drama Les mouches - The Flies (1943) and the novels of Maurice Blanchot: Le Trés-Haut - The Most High (1949) and of Jonathan Littell: Les Bienveillantes - The Kindly Ones (2006) are modern realizations of this complex. The figure of Orestes from the beginning in Aeschylus deals with elementary questions of right and politics. The reflections on this dimension of the Orestes myth are developed in the context of modern political theory and philosophy of right from Rousseau, Kant and Hegel to Arendt, Blanchot and Derrida. The book shows, how a literary representation of the Orestes myth allows a deeper insight into the questions of right and politics than a mere theoretical treatment does. Ist mixing philosophy, literature, politics and law is a contribution of what may be called figurative thinking.
Autor: Poppenberg, Gerhard
EAN: 9783825369118
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 109
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Universitätsverlag Winter
Untertitel: The Myth of Orestes in Antiquity and Modernity
Schlagworte: Aischylos Altertum Arendt, Hannah Blanchot, Maurice Derrida, Jacques Euripides Kant, Immanuel Littell, Jonathan Politische Theorie Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Sartre, Jean-Paul Sophokles Zeitgenossen
Größe: 12 × 172 × 253
Gewicht: 343 g
Übersetzer: Hewson, Mark