Te Refection of Ancient Tragedy in Two Modern Versions of Antigone: Søren Kierkegaard and María Zambrano

Te article addresses two diferent conceptions of the tragedy in- herent in the human condition. In his essay on Antigone, Soren Kierkegaard defned the tragic in a framework combining aesthetics, ethics and theology. María Zam- brano, in turn, let Antigone herself express the meaning and truth of life from the metaphyscial pers- pective of the author’s own “poetic reason”. Te argument comes in steps. In the frst, I assess Zambra- no’s interpretation of Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy. In the second, I explain Kierkegaard’s and Zambrano’s divergent approaches to the fgure of Antigone, and show how they nevertheless displayed a critical conception of the modern subject and its individualism with a view to reestablishing the connecti- on between the individual and the divine.