Antigone's Sisters

<p><b>An original and innovative exploration of Antigone femininity and love in various cosmological philosophical and theological contexts.</b></p><p>In <i>Antigone's Sisters</i> 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 <i>Matrix</i> in Jakob Böhme <i>Clara</i> in F. W. J. Schelling <i>beyng</i> in Martin Heidegger <i>chóra</i> in Jacques Derrida and <i>breath</i> in Luce Irigaray's thought. Drawing on Bracha M. Ettinger's concept of <i>matrixiality</i> 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 <i>Antigone's Sisters</i> 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.</p>