Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

by Mario Telò

<b>Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i>, Euripides' <i>Bacchae</i>, and Aeschylus's <i>Eumenides-</i>this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. </b>Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler's writing. It shows how Butler's mode of reading tragedy-and, crucially, <i>reading tragically</i>-offers a distinctive ethico-political response to the harrowing...