Antigone fascinates G. W. F. Hegel and Luce Irigaray, both of whom turn to her in their explorations and articulations of ethics. Hegel and Irigaray make these re-turns to Antigone through the double and related lenses of nature and sexual difference. This essay investigates these figures of Antigone and the accompanying ethical accounts of nature and sexual difference as a way of examining Iri...

* James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, MSN 1D3, Carow Hall, Fairfax, VA 22030; [email protected]. Cowen is a professor of economics and the general director of the Mercatus Center and the Buchanan Center. He is the author of In Praise of Commercial Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), What Price Fame? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), ...