Tragic Ambiguity: Anthropology, Philosophy and Sophocles' Antigone

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Intercultural comparisons
1.2. Premises of our method
APPENDIX
CHAPTER TWO. SEPARATIVE COSMOLOGIES
2.1. Fundamental cosmological categories
2.2. Aspects of separative cosmologies
2.3. Harmonization in separative cosmology
CHAPTER THREE. INTERCONNECTED COSMOLOGIES
3.1. Building materials of interconnected cosmologies
3.2. Man and nature
3.3. Man and his gods
3.4. Social relations
3.5. Life and death
3.6. Law and order
3.7. Darkness and insight
CHAPTER FOUR. ASPECTS OF ANCIENT GREEK COSMOLOGY
4.1. Building materials of ancient Greek cosmology
4.2. Man and nature
4.3 The Greeks and their gods
4.4. Social relations
4.5. Life and death
4.6. Law and order
4.7. Darkness and insight
CHAPTER FIVE. EXISTING INTERPRETATIONS OF SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE
5.1. The directly separative point of view
5.2. The harmonizing point of view
CHAPTER SIX. THE STASIMA OF SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE
6.0. Introduction
6.1. The first 'stasimon'
6.2. The second 'stasimon'
6.3. The third 'stasimon'
6.4. The fourth 'stasimon'
6.5. The parode and the last 'stasimon'
CHAPTER SEVEN. THE EPISODES OF SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE
7.1. Creon's speech
7.2. Antigone's speech
7.3. Antigone and Ismene
7.4. Creon and the guard
7.5. Creon and Antigone
7.6. Haemon, Creon and Antigone
7.7. Antigone's reversal
7.8. Creon's reversal
7.9. Sophocles' cosmology
CHAPTER EIGHT. TRAGEDY AND SOME PHILOSOPHERS
8.0. Introduction
8.1. Plato's banishment of tragedy
8.2. Ricoeur's reconciliation of tragedy and philosophy
8.3. Philosophical acceptance of tragedy
Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX LOCORUM
INDEX OF SELECTED TOPICS
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES