George Steiner escribía que “la Antígona de Sófocles no es un texto cualquiera”, es una de aquellas acciones duraderas de la historia de nuestra conciencia filosófica, literaria y política. ¿Pero las Antígonas siguen siendo relevantes para nuestro presente? ¿Y en qué medida ofrecen claves de lectura para repensar el exilio? En este artículo intentamos responder a estas preguntas a través del análisis de las lecturas de Antígona ofrecidas por María Zambrano, Adriana Cavarero y Judith Butler. Las tres, a partir de (...) la reivindicación de la figura sofoclea como portadora de una carga simbólica propia, abordan el difícil tema de las relaciones entre cuerpo, exilio y política: el cuerpo incestuoso, el cuerpo entre vida y muerte, el cuerpo y su voz, el cuerpo exiliado, el cuerpo y la sangre como esferas del reconocimiento o del no-reconocimiento. En definitiva, las Antígonas de Zambrano, Cavarero y Butler nos invitan a repensar la polis desde el exilio. (shrink)

Among those who reject the Epicurean claim that death is not bad for the one who dies, it is popularly held that death is bad for the one who dies, when it is bad for the one who dies, because it deprives the one who dies of the good things that otherwise would have fallen into her life. This view is known as the deprivation account of the value of death, and Fred Feldman is one of its most prominent defenders. (...) In this paper, I explain why I believe that Feldman’s argument for the occasional badness of death fails. While staying within an Epicurean framework, I offer an alternative that adequately accounts for a significant range of widely held intuitions about prudential value. My account implies that death is almost always good for the one who dies, yet often less good than not dying. Finally, I discuss some puzzles that remain for my account and hint at possible ways to address them. (shrink)

Mysticism denotes phenomena related with Divine experience. In religion it is perceived as a state in which a person seems to have passed beyond the normal parameters of human life and neither behaves nor expresses him/herself in the manner generally considered correct and acceptable in cultural or religious terms. I will approach the central theme of this paper from an ecumenical and multi-faith point of view. It entails demonstrating through the lives of certain figures, by no means conventional ones, that (...) female mysticism in the three big monotheistic religions contains a good degree of rebelliousness and transgresses, more or less openly, traditional doctrine. But it also goes beyond the platitudes of mystic experience itself. (shrink)