Antigone, Autonomy, and Higher Lawlessness
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on June 24, 2026
Abstract
Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print.
The first surviving references tounwritten lawand toautonomycome to us from Sophocles’Antigone. Legal readings of the tragedy routinely focus on the contest between conflicting norms, like natural law and legal positivism. These readings typically ...
The first surviving references tounwritten lawand toautonomycome to us from Sophocles’Antigone. Legal readings of the tragedy routinely focus on the contest between conflicting norms, like natural law and legal positivism. These readings typically ...