Butler Antigone’s Claim

Sexual/Gendered Performances…

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Reactions? (of whatever sort…)

user-friendliness issue a bit disorganized

still logical organization, but…

density of the prose used other people’s

ideas – where are hers?

ch1 what is the symbolic??

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Agenda

Antigone’s Claims…A Collaborative Summary

Class ExerciseCritical Reflections on Butler’s Book

Antigone’s Claims…

A Collaborative Summary

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Ch 1: Antigone’s Claim

Instructor’s outline Aims and outline Overview: prior

interpretation

Your comments critical stance toward h and

l: idea of a universal law necessary for culture h’s argument unstable

because relies on distinction between kinship and state

B: each is necessary to other ant not kinship in its ideal

form

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KREŌN phēs, ē katarnei nē dedrakenai tade?ANTIGONĒ kai phēmi drasai kouk aparnoumai to nē.

(Sophocles Antigone lines 442–3)

CREON Do you admit this or do you deny it?ANTIGONE I say I did it and I don’t deny it.

(Wyckoff translation p. 173)

· · ·ISMENE I did the deed, if she agrees I did.

I am accessory and share the blame.(p. 177)

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Speech Acts

Speech that does things“With this ring I thee wed”

By altering social reality through social performance and recognition

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Austin How to Do Things with Words

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Ch2: Unwritten Laws, Aberrant Transmissions

Instructor’s Outline Hegel’s take on play

and Butler’s on Hegel’s… Lacan’s take on play

and Butler’s on Lacan’s…

Your comments

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Ch3: Promiscuous Obedience

Instructor’s Outline Kinship: Antigone’s curse? Kinship: Antigone’s act?

Your Comments

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Class Exercise

Critical Reflections on Butler’s Book

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Topics

incest confusing

argumentative structure

strained logical connections, strained family connections interpretative leap

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Comments

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