{"product_id":"niobes-antiquity-modernity-critical-theory-hardcover","title":"Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMario Tel?\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA marginalized but persistent figure of Greek tragedy, Niobe, whose many children were killed by Apollo and Artemis, embodies yet problematizes the philosophically charged dialectics between life and death, mourning and melancholy, animation and inanimation, silence and logos. The essays in \u003ci\u003eNiobes\u003c\/i\u003e present her as a set of complex figurations, an elusive mythical character but also an overdetermined figure who has long exerted a profound influence on various modes of modern thought, especially in the domains of aesthetics, ethics, psychoanalysis, and politics. As a symbol of both exclusion and resistance, Niobe calls for critical attention at a time of global crisis. Reconstructing the dialogues of Phillis Wheatley, G. W. F. Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and others with Niobe as she appears in Aeschylus, Sophocles, Ovid, and the visual arts, a collective of major thinkers--classicists, art historians, and critical theorists--reflect on the space that she can occupy in the humanities today. Inspiring new ways of connecting the classical tradition and ancient tragic discourse with crises and political questions relating to gender, race, and social justice, Niobe insists on living on. Contributors: Barbara Baert, Andrew Benjamin, drea brown, Adriana Cavarero, Rebecca Comay, Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak, John T. Hamilton, Paul A. Kottman, Jacques Lezra, Andres Matlock, Ben Radcliffe, Victoria Rimell, Mario Tel?, Mathura Umachandran, Daniel Villegas V?lez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Tel?\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eArchive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGreek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eResistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAndrew Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of numerous monographs, including \u003ci\u003eThe Plural Event: Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePresent Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eVirtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eArt, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 286\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837583122629,"sku":"9780814215630","price":194.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/C3GtCIjqTj9780814215630.webp?v=1771281746","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/niobes-antiquity-modernity-critical-theory-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}