A força política e contranormativa do luto em Antígona, a partir de Judith Butler

Abstract

The present work relates the Greek tragedy Antigone, by Sophocles, with the concepts of counter-normativity, vulnerability, precariousness, interdependence and, finally, with the main concept of grief. Based on that character, in the first chapter we present the concept of abjection and its intersection with counter-normativeness, highlighting the counter-normative place of the abject. In the second chapter, we use Antigone to shift the counternormative genre to an experience of grief as a political tool beyond melancholy. In the character, grief is transmuted as a potential category of struggle: in fact, the condition of grievable defines in life how creatures are treated. In the third chapter, we introduce the concept of precariousness and differentiate it from a precarious condition, relating them to the notion of vulnerability. The research is in line with the Butlerian thesis in the sense that the equal distribution of the right to grief requires the universal guarantee of social, economic and political conditions so that all lives are equally recognized as lives. To carry out this work, we used Judith Butler's wide bibliographic arsenal, as well as articles/essays by her commentators.