La mano invisibile della giustizia. Rachel Bespaloff fra tragedia e responsabilità

At the heart of tragic experience, justice can be grasped as a measure that, while eluding any fixed form, continues to orient the meaning of the human condition. Through her reading of the Iliad, Rachel Bespaloff brings to light a decisive transformation of dike, which gradually shifts from a principle of cosmic order to the concrete dimension of lived experience, where human beings are exposed to suffering, war, and the irreparable. Within this exposure, justice takes shape not as something that precedes existence, but as some- thing that arises within it, in the task of sustaining what occurs without support. The en- counter between Priam and Achilles marks the point at which this tension becomes visible, as gesture and silence open a proximity in which the human condition recognizes itself in its shared vulnerability. The “invisible hand” thus designates a discreet presence that, without imposing itself, accompanies the encounter between human beings and preserves its possibility, entrusting each with responsibility for the other.