Lectures in Political Theory: Bonnie Honig

Part of NYU Gallatin's Lectures in Political Theory series, on November 9, 2009, Bonnie Honig looked at the promise and limits of mourning and lamentation for democratic politics, by a reading of Sophocles Antigone, the classical tragedy that has played a key role in philosophy as well as political and feminist theory.

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• bonnie honig
• political theory
• sophocles
• antigone

[telamon2011]

I was a teaching assistant at Harvard during Honig's time there, and on my first day, I remember asking her where the copying machine was (I was in a mad rush to make copies of my handouts for my class that was to start in ten minutes, and she happened to be the only person in sight). She grumpily said to me, "You think I'm a secretary, don't you?" (Yes, I am male). I responded I did not think that, but that I also thought secretaries did not have a monopoly on being helpful. She apologized.

[samtheman789]

What does Juridification mean?

[undefinedwarp]

this is not a lecture. she has wrote this down not off the mind horrible SPEACH.