{"product_id":"hunting-for-justice-kalliopi-nikolopoulou-9798855801286","title":"Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus's Oresteia","description":"A purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dikē, in Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing from Walter Burkert's anthropology of the hunt in \u003ci\u003eHomo Necans\u003c\/i\u003e, which articulates an ancient cosmology and implies a theory of (tragic) seriousness that parallels Aristotle's naturalist interpretation of tragedy, \u003ci\u003eHunting for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e argues that justice is rooted in predation as exemplified by the Furies. Although the \u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e has been read as the passage from the violence of nature to civic justice, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou offers an original interpretation of the trilogy: the ending of the feud is less an instance of political deliberation (as Hegel maintained), and more an instance of nature's necessary halting of its own destructiven'ess for life to resume. Extending to contemporary contexts, she argues that nature's arbitrariness continues to underpin our notions of justice, albeit in a distorted form. In this sense, \u003ci\u003eHunting for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critique of the political infinitization and idealization of justice that permeates our current discourses of activism and social justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kalliopi Nikolopoulou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855801286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Kalliopi Nikolopoulou","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451219693823,"sku":"9798855801286","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_079173da-5d9d-48c2-a926-c2a15a05fcae.jpg?v=1735876819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hunting-for-justice-kalliopi-nikolopoulou-9798855801286","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}