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Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus's Oresteia

Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus's Oresteia - Hardcover

by Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kalliopi NikolopoulouSeries:Suny Contemporary Continental PhilosophyPublish date:2025-03-01Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855801286UPC:9798855801286Book Category:Philosophy, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Ancient, Violence in SocietyBook Topic:GreeceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCV65XVFGH

Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus's Oresteia

Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.

A purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dikē, in Aeschylus's Oresteia. Drawing from Walter Burkert's anthropology of the hunt in Homo Necans, which articulates an ancient cosmology and implies a theory of (tragic)...

Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855801286UPC:9798855801286Book Category:Philosophy, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Ancient, Violence in SocietyBook Topic:GreeceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCV65XVFGH

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. She is the author of Tragically Speaking: On the Use and Abuse of Theory for Life.


Publisher: State University of New York Press

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