Abstract
Coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum, Cornelius Castoriadis and Martin Heidegger produced world views that stand in stark contrast to one another. Their contrasting readings of the same canonical text by Sophocles, a famous choral ode, or stasimon , from Antigone may offer an illuminating perspective on precisely where their visions of humanity differ. In this chapter, the author establishes for English-speaking readers just what aspects of Heidegger's German version of the stasimon , by Sophocles provoke Castoriadis's ire, attempting an adjudication of points at issue. He tests Castoriadis's claim that the aetiology of Heidegger's reading is to be found purely in his Nazism. What Castoriadis asks, however, is: does this have anything to do with the central import of the Sophoclean choral ode? Castoriadis accuses Heidegger of falsifying the syntax of the original. Castoriadis's own reading is not tendentiously socialist, but simply follows the mainstream of scholarship. Keywords: antigone ; Cornelius Castoriadis; Martin Heidegger; Nazism; Sophoclean choral ode; stasimon
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