Mut ohne Heldentum/ Courage without Heroism, Article
Courage without heroism. Antigone,Créon, Ismène, Hémon, Tirésias Antonia Birnbaum The comprehension of the tragic in Hegel and Lacan states Antigone’s unconditional desire as heroic. Against this tendency, another hypothesis is explored: The heroic, be it ironic or a sublime brilliance of the sublime, bars the access to the unconditional by attaching it to a transcendence, rather than inquiring into its address. To play down heroism means to reinterpret the capacity of solitude which characterizes heroic courage. What courage then reveals…