The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg

ISBN-13: 9780748642359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Opis

Tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg
Returning to the work of Hannah Arendt as a theoretical starting point, Lyndsey Stonebridge traces a critical aesthetics of judgement in postwar writers and intellectuals, including Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch. Writing in the false dawn of a new era of international justice and human rights, these complicated women intellectuals were drawn to the law because of its promise of justice, yet critical of its political blindness and suspicious of its moral claims. Bringing together literary-legal theory with trauma studies, The Judicial Imagination argues that today we have much to learn from these writers' impassioned scepticism about the law's ability to legislate for the territorial violence of our times.
Key Features
*Returns to the work of Hannah Arendt as the starting point for a new theorisation of the relation between law and trauma
* Provides a new context for understanding the continuities between late modernism and postwar writing through a focus on justice and human rights
*Offers a model of reading between history, law and literature which focuses on how matters of style and genre articulate moral, philosophical and political ambiguities and perplexities
*Makes a significant contribution to the rapidly developing fields of literary-legal and human rights studies

Spis treści

Introduction; Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma; Part One: Writing After Nuremberg; Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg; Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony; Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement; Part Two: Territorial Rights; Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights; Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen; Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch; Bibliography.