The Experience of Tragic Judgment

ISBN-13: 9780415657181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 264 str.

Julen Etxabe;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world is not to be found, as many would suppose, in an impersonal set of procedures with which all participants could be treated as having rationally agreed. The very idea of such a neutral system is an illusion. Rather, what is needed, Julen Etxabe argues in this book, is a heightened awareness of the difficulty of judgment. The Experience of Tragic Judgments draws upon Sophocles' play Antigone in order to consider this difficulty and the virtues that attend its acknowledgment. Based on the transformative experience that the audience undergoes in engaging with this play what is proposed is a reconceptualization of judgment: not as it is generally thought to occur in a single isolated moment, like the falling of an axe, but rather as an experience that develops in and through space and time.

Spis treści

Introduction Antigone and the Experience of Legal Judgment; Chapter 1. A Window on the Normative World; Chapter 2. Antigone, Part I: Beginnings; Chapter 3. Incommensurability and Judgment; Chapter 4. Antigone, Part II: Transitions; Chapter 5. Acts of Reading, Acts of Judgment; Chapter 6. Antigone, Part III: Realizations; Chapter 7. The Temporalities of Judgment: Antigone and Law

O autorze

Julen Etxabe is based at The Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research  at the University of Helsinki