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Overview"Responding to Plato's challenge to defend the political thought of poetic sources, Marlene K. Sokolon explores Euripides's understanding of justice in nine of his surviving tragedies. Drawing on Greek mythological stories, Euripides examines several competing ideas of justice, from the ancient ethic of helping friends and harming enemies to justice as merit and relativist views of might makes right. Reflecting Dionysus, the paradoxical god of Greek theater, Euripides reveals the human experience of understanding justice to be limited, multifaceted, and contradictory. His approach underscores the value of understanding justice not only as a rational idea or theory, but also as an integral part of the continuous and unfinished dialogue of political community. As the first book devoted to Euripidean justice, Seeing with Free Eyes adds to the growing interest in how citizens in democracies use storytelling genres to think about important political questions, such as ""What is justice?""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marlene K. SokolonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438484716ISBN 10: 1438484712 Pages: 404 Publication Date: 01 August 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Justice in the City 1. The Medea: What Justice Conceals 2. The Bacchae: Justice, Dialectics, and Dismemberment 3. The Phoenician Women: Justice is Multicolored Part II: Justice in Sacred Spaces 4. The Ion: Justice, In and Out of Bounds 5. The Children of Heracles: And Justice for Others 6. The Suppliant Women: Justice among Cities Part III: Justice in the Wilderness 7. The Hecuba: Justice as Autonomy 8. The Alcestis: Justice as Generosity, or Too Much of a Good Thing 9. The Electra: The Justice of Good and Bad Judgment Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviews...Sokolon's book succeeds in conveying the many, variegated, and indeed related ways that Euripidean tragedy explores questions of justice on the thematic and discursive level ... Impressively, Sokolon handles both the primary material and ample secondary scholarship with proficiency, while also bringing her background in political science to bear. - Review of Politics """…Sokolon's book succeeds in conveying the many, variegated, and indeed related ways that Euripidean tragedy explores questions of justice on the thematic and discursive level … Impressively, Sokolon handles both the primary material and ample secondary scholarship with proficiency, while also bringing her background in political science to bear."" — Review of Politics" Author InformationMarlene K. Sokolon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Canada. Her books include Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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