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Rethinking Antigone as a singular being: the possibility of community
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2020) Tavas, Ezgi; Keskin, Ferda
ABSTRACT: The starting point of this thesis is one of the basic questions of political philosophy: “How to get together?”. The possibility of the co-existence, which is not founded upon common identities, values or norms, will be discussed thorough reading of Nancy, Agamben and Butler. The thesis aims to rethink the community in which singular being(s)-[are]-in-common, along with a critical reading of Sophocles’ Antigone. In this context, I will show how the community, which is not conditioned by any belonging, moves from theory into practice by interpreting Antigone’s acts and experiences. In the first chapter, I analyse the community in which singularities co-exist, and I also examine Antigone’s finding herself in this community through the death of her brother. In the second chapter, I focus on her being singular by disposing of her identities attributed by the sovereign power or the state. Finally, I investigate her being reduce to “bare life” on the threshold between life and death by the sovereign but at the same time I seek to demonstrate that on the threshold, Antigone offers an ethics and togetherness which have shown our commonality of being mortal / finite and vulnerable with all beings.