What does it mean to be called "human"? How does this nomination
affect or effect what it means to be called "divine"? This book
responds to these related questions in intertwined explorations of
the passionate trials-examinations, tests, and ordeals-of Antigone
and Jesus. Impelled by her love of the impossible, Antigone crosses
uncrossable boundaries, transgresses norms of kinship and
mortality, confounds distinctions of nature and culture, and, in
the process, unearths and critiques the sexism implicit in
humanism. Antigone thus disrupts humanist traditions stretching
from Sophocles to Martin Heidegger-traditions that would render her
subhuman or inhuman. She survives these exclusions and engenders a
new mode of humanity, one that destabilizes classic oppositions of
life and death and affirms mortal finitude in the face of the
future's unforeseeability. This new mode of humanity offers a new
way of considering Jesus, whom Christianity identifies as human and
divine. Building on his reading of Antigone, the author, through a
close reading of Mark's gospel focused on Jesus' cry of abandonment
from the cross, shows that to refigure humanity is also to refigure
divinity and their relation. In the first extended treatment of
Jean-Luc Nancy's Corpus in English, the author draws on the
theoretical insights of Jacques Derrida and Nancy to propose an
innovative account of Jesus' humanity and divinity-one that can
contribute to religious understandings of embodiment and prayer and
can open avenues of inquiry into tragedy, sexual difference,
posthumanism, and politics. By pairing Antigone and Jesus and
engaging the work of Judith Butler, Simone Weil, Jean-Louis
Chretien, and Dominique Janicaud, this book constructively
participates in interdisciplinary conversations at the nexus of
religious, philosophical, literary, and gender studies.
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