Injustice and Restitution: The Ordinance of Time

By Stephen David Ross

Book Overview

This book addresses the nature and injustice of authority, retracing the ideas of reason and law from ancient Greece to the present, pursuing a line of thought begun with Anaximander, who speaks of the ordinance of time as restitution for immemorial injustice, and Heraclitus, who speaks of justice as strife. Predominantly philosophical, exploring the authority of Western philosophy in twentieth-century continental and pragmatist writings, the book explores alternative voices as challenges to authority, in feminist and multicultural writings, in Greek mythology and African narratives, in Greek drama and twentieth-century literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791416704
• ISBN13: 9780791416709
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher