S.E. Wilmer
Theatre and performance studies scholar, known for publishing as S. E. Wilmer. He has taught at Trinity College Dublin and has authored and edited works on national theatres, performance, identity, and biopolitics, including National Theatres in a Changing Europe and Resisting Biopolitics (with Audronė Žukauskaitė).
Books
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1. Interrogating Antigone In Postmodern Philosophy And Criticism
This edited collection examines how Sophocles’ heroine has been mobilized across postmodern philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, and performance studies to probe questions of law versus ethics, kinship, sovereignty, and resistance. Bringing together readings from thinkers such as Hegel, Lacan, Derrida, Butler, and Žižek alongside analyses of contemporary stage adaptations, the essays trace how the figure functions as a contested emblem for civil disobedience, mourning and burial rites, gender and identity, and the politics of the dead. The volume highlights the tensions between state power and individual obligation while showing how reinterpretations of the myth illuminate urgent cultural and political debates in late modernity.
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