ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the continuities and, perhaps more important, the relative discontinuities, in Bankowski's work by tracking the shift from the uncompromising early iconoclasm. Iconoclasm - from the Greek eikonoklasmos is the name of the movement against the worship of images that nearly tore Byzantium apart in the eighth and ninth centuries AD and became the significant first step in the severing of Eastern from Western Christendom. Bankowski explains this hubris of Creon's as the reduction of practical reasons to reasons of state, a reductive commensuration of orders of reasons that only in their distinctness suspend tragic choice. The chapter describes 'divine folly to hunger and thirst for justice' and think of Antigone as the heroine who dwells insistently in a space that denies her the justice she craves, and the love that she offers, though she is never graced with the epiphany of atheism that relieves Camus's Sisyphus.
