Francesca Maria Villani

María Zambrano’s philosophy is studded with musical metaphors. Indeed, one could say that it is the very proceeding of thought that seems to accord with a logic more akin to music than to pure rationality. This work focusses, in particular, on the figure of Antigone, as described by Zambrano within The Tomb of Antigone, with the intention of demonstrating how the figure of the heroine is essentially musical. Starting from the realm of the sonic, it is possible to trace a line of research within feminist studies that focusses on the being-in-hearing as an existential posture. Within this space, Antigone represents the dissonance that allows for the unhinging of the binary order, to open up to a perspective that includes otherness in all its forms.