Colloquy Issue 11 May 2006 - Arts - Monash University

30Carlo Salzani░89 As Haemon asserts: “For whoever think that they themselves alone have sense,or have a power of speech or an intelligence that no other has, these people whenthey are laid open are found to be empty” (707-9). Thus Gourgouris concludes:“The two sides of the law (human/divine, State/family, etc.) are not as mutually exclusiveas they appear at first glance since they can be interwoven, and it is preciselyin the sense that Kreon and Antigone resist this interweaving (pareirein) andpursue each other to destruction by following the law of monos phronein that theybecome apoleis. To think and act alone in a democratic polis is plainly selfdestructive,as well as an affront to the polis,” Does Literature Think?, pp. 140-1.90 Euben writes: “Proximity because what the audience saw and heard on stageresonated with recognizable contemporary events, characters, and situations; distancebecause, though elements of the excesses on stage were present in Athenianlife, they did not define it,” Corrupting Youth, p. 176.91 Castoriadis, World in Fragments, pp. 93-4.92 Castoriadis, World in Fragments, pp. 93-4.93 Gourgouris, Does Literature Think?, p. 155.