Antigone's Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought)

In Antigone's Sisters , Lenart Škof explores the power of love in our world—stronger than violence and, ultimately, stronger even than death. Focusing on Antigone, Savitri, and Mary, the book offers an investigation into various goddesses and feminine figures from a variety of philosophical, mythological, theological, and literary contexts. The book also elaborates on the feminine aspects of selected concepts from modern philosophical texts, such as the Matrix in Jakob Böhme, Clara in F. W. J. Schelling, beyng in Martin Heidegger, chóra in Jacques Derrida, and breath in Luce Irigaray's thought. Drawing on Bracha M. Ettinger's concept of matrixiality , Škof proposes a new matrixial theory of philosophy, cosmology, and theology of love. Despite its many usages and appropriations, love remains a neglected topic within Western philosophy. With its new interpretation of Antigone and related readings of Irigaray, Kristeva, and Ettinger, Antigone's Sisters aims to identify some of the reasons for this forgetting of love, and to show that it is only love that can bring peace to our ethically disrupted world. "An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts. In Antigone's Sisters, Lenart Skof explores the power of love in our world--stronger than violence and, ultimately, stronger even than death. Focusing on Antigone, Savitri, and Mary, the book offers an investigation into various goddesses and feminine figures from a variety of philosophical, mythological, theological, and literary contexts. The book also elaborates on the feminine aspects of selected concepts from modern philosophical texts, such as the Matrix in Jakob Böhme, Clara in F. W. J. Schelling, beyng in Martin Heidegger, chóra in Jacques Derrida, and breath in Luce Irigaray's thought. Drawing on Bracha M. Ettinger's concept of matrixiality, Skof proposes a new matrixial theory of philosophy, cosmology, and theology of love. Despite its many usages and appropriations, love remains a neglected topic within Western philosophy. With its new interpretation of Antigone and related readings of Irigaray, Kristeva, and Ettinger, Antigone's Sisters aims to identify some of the reasons for this forgetting of love, and to show that it is only love that can bring peace to our ethically disrupted world."--Publisher description Contents Acknowledgments Prelude: The Matrix of Love / Ettingerian Matrixial Web Part I: Cosmology / Theology of Love 1 Antigone / Savitri Antigone Savitri (Alcestis) 2 Metis / Lepa Vida The Tragic Death of Fair Vida and its Ethical Consequences Forgotten Layers of Ethics On Hospitality and Ethical Symptomatology (Favour) 3 Bethlehemite Concubine / Mary In Utero The Third Presence Toward a New Matrixial Theology of Incarnation (Sophia) Interlude: Interval / Time of Love Introduction Coming to the Stage of Ethics Constitution of the Other in Feuerbach, Chrétien, and Watsuji An Interval of Grace Part II: Philosophy / Ontology of Love 4 Clara / The Matrix Toward Schelling’s Clara Schelling with Böhme: The Matrix Back to Schelling’s Clara (Sister Angelica) 5 Beyng / Sister Toward the Ontology of Love: Ludwig Binswanger Forms of Pure Love: Parents and Children Love as Beyng’s Sister Beyond the Margin: Beyng as a Plane of Love (Orin) 6 Irigaray / Breath Before Breath Is Born The Love of Breath Toward Sharing of the Divine Breath in Humans (Chóra) Postlude: Jesus / Antigone Notes Bibliography Index About the Author