The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics

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2008

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Oxford University Press

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This chapter examines Heaney’s translations of Antigone in terms of its being a vehicle for an ethical interrogation of the laws and loyalties and of the contrast between the loyalty to one’s tribe and a broader intersubjective sense of laws and duties.

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Derrida, Justice, Ethics, Heaney, Antigone

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O'Brien,E.(2008).'The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics,' Interrogating Antigone. In, Willmer,S., Zukauskaite,A, (eds.),Philosophy to Performance Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds series. Oxford: Oxford University Press,121-146

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