Injustice and Restitution: The Ordinance of Time

Stephen David Ross

Sep 1993 · State University of New York Press

About this ebook

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.

About the author

Stephen David Ross is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of A Theory of Art: Inexhaustibility by Contrast; Philosophical Mysteries; Perspective in Whitehead's Metaphysics; Metaphysical Aporia and Philosophical Heresy; Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory - 2nd Edition; and The Ring of Representation, all published by SUNY Press.