Showing papers in "Law and Literature in 2021"
TL;DR: This article reviewed the new, vibrant, and nearly 900-page Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities (OHL) and found that "reviewing the book is no easy task".
Abstract: Reviewing the new, vibrant, and nearly 900-page Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities is no easy task. As seasoned editor-scholars Simon Stern, Maksymilian Del Mar, and Bernadette Meyler acknowledg...
9 citations
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the title page of Vico's New Science in light of Hiroshi Sugimoto's series Theaters and the emblematic of Goodrich and Legendre, showing how the rhetorical tradition of Italian...
Abstract: The article analyses the title page of Vico’s New Science in light of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s series Theaters and the emblematic of Goodrich and Legendre, showing how the rhetorical tradition of Italian...
7 citations
TL;DR: In the context of an epistemological revolution that subverts traditional juridical science, and that places "feeling" at the center of the reflection on the homo juridicus, Aesthetics opens a path as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In the context of an epistemological revolution that subverts traditional juridical science, and that places “feeling” at the center of the reflection on the homo juridicus, Aesthetics opens a path...
7 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the juridical nature of what De Castro calls, in opposition to the Cartesian myth of method, the method of myth, characterized by the impossibi...
Abstract: With this paper I would like to highlight the juridical nature of what De Castro calls, in opposition to the Cartesian myth of method, the method of myth. The myth is characterized by the impossibi...
4 citations
TL;DR: The acceptance of artistic creation has increasingly called upon its audiences to consider the acceptability of certain actions in ways that law cannot as mentioned in this paper, since at least the late 1960s, when artistic creation increasingly called on its audience to consider acceptance of certain artistic creation.
Abstract: Since at least the late 1960s, artistic creation has increasingly called upon its audiences to consider the acceptability of certain actions in ways that law cannot. Based on four examples carrying...
4 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal the relationship between transgression and individuation by looking at the common roots that such concepts share in law and literature, and propose a framework for transgression detection.
Abstract: This paper aims at unveiling the relationship between transgression and individuation, by looking at the common roots that such concepts share in law and literature. The main objective of such ende...
4 citations
TL;DR: The concept of law has been asked with persistence and answered by serious thinkers in so many diverse, diverse, and diverse, domains as discussed by the authors, as observed by Hart in the opening lines of The Concept of Law.
Abstract: “As observed by Hart in the opening lines of The Concept of Law, «few questions concerning human society have been asked with such persistence and answered by serious thinkers in so many diverse, s...
4 citations
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TL;DR: Rafael Cauduro's mural The Seven Crimes of Justice, situated in the Supreme Court of Mexico, speaks to the old problem of the relationship between art, politics and the State.
Abstract: Rafael Cauduro’s mural The Seven Crimes of Justice, situated in the Supreme Court of Mexico, speaks to the old problem of the relationship between art, politics and the State. In Mexico City, the b...
3 citations
TL;DR: This article lays out the conceptual and spatial constructs that are the Library and the Museum, detailing how even trivial norms within them uphold crucial philosophical distinctions, for example, surrounding authorship and authenticity.
Abstract: What can the institutional practices of libraries and museums tell us about the ways in which our culture conceives of knowledge and aesthetics? How might their architectures, and our navigation of...
3 citations
TL;DR: This paper explored a set of ground-work strategies for artists to respond to hyper-visuality of racial injustices on American ground, and found that artists, and disciplines in the arts, humanities, and law, responded to the hyper-vulnerability of racial injustice on the American ground.
Abstract: How are artists, and how are disciplines in the arts, humanities and law, responding to the hyper-visuality of racial injustices on American ground? This article explores a set of “groundwork” tact...
3 citations
TL;DR: The law and narrative approach has used methodological rigor to achieve success, riding the wave of the cultural and narrative turn as discussed by the authors, and it is exemplifying a certain postmodernist trend.
Abstract: Presenting itself as exemplifying a certain postmodernist trend, the law and narrative approach has used methodological rigor to achieve success, riding the wave of the cultural and narrative turn
TL;DR: Donaldson is a major modern writer of speculative fiction for whom the issue of sexed violence, including rape, plays an important role as discussed by the authors, and examines "Reave the Just", the keyno...
Abstract: Stephen R. Donaldson is a major modern writer of speculative fiction for whom the issue of sexed violence, including rape, plays an important role. This article examines “Reave the Just,” the keyno...
TL;DR: Analysis of Mollers' book shows that, despite some lingering conceptual questions, M€ollers has written an extremely rich book, combining a rarely seen analytic rigor with a truly immense range of reference.
TL;DR: The authors analyzes early works by Teresa Margolles (Lengua, 2000) and Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez (Huesos en el desierto, 2002) in terms of necrowriting, that is, a grammar among and for...
Abstract: , This article analyzes early works by Teresa Margolles (Lengua, 2000) and Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez (Huesos en el desierto, 2002) in terms of necrowriting, that is, a grammar among and for...
TL;DR: After the passion for the system that has characterized the modern age through the canon of "clear and distinct" and after the first wave of post-modern has tried to impose "chaos" as a "rule,” the...
Abstract: After the passion for the system that has characterized the modern age through the canon of “clear and distinct” and after the first wave of post-modern has tried to impose “chaos” as a “rule,” the...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with the problem of judgement through the reading made by Derrida of Kafka's "Vor dem Gesetz" and underline the existence of an originary contamination between law and stor...
Abstract: The text deals with the problem of judgement through the reading made by Derrida of Kafka’s “Vor dem Gesetz”. It aims at underlining the existence of an originary contamination between law and stor...
TL;DR: The relationship between law and literature in South Africa offers fertile territory for the study of the relations between literature and law as mentioned in this paper, and the colonial heritage is fertile ground for this study.
Abstract: South Africa offers fertile territory for the study of the relations between law and literature. The colonial heritage – race superiority, paternalism, economic exploitation, divide-and conquer str...
TL;DR: In this paper Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events mirrors the scholarly praxis of the common law, encoding a doctrine of virtue from diligent study, which promotes critical literacy as a mean to promote critical literacy.
Abstract: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events mirrors the scholarly praxis of the common law, encoding a doctrine of virtue from diligent study. This doctrine promotes critical literacy as a mean...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the digital's birthing of a new immersive visual and aural experience, which they describe as "a fundamental, performative irony in this digital world".
Abstract: I should draw this review - but I was hamstrung by my extremely limited skill set. There is a fundamental, performative irony in this. The digital’s birthing of a new immersive visual and aural cul...
TL;DR: Abdel Hamdan, audio investigator and artist, interviewed former prisoners as part of investigations into the detention facility by as discussed by the authors and found that silence is a method of torture in Saydnaya Military Prison.
Abstract: Silence is a method of torture in Saydnaya Military Prison Lawrence Abu Hamdan, audio investigator and artist, interviewed former prisoners as part of investigations into the detention facility by
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that time does much work to legitimate p... whether it's the mythologised pasts summoned by religious revivalist movements, or the "certainising" logics imbued in discourses around risk and securitization.
Abstract: Whether it’s the mythologised pasts summoned by religious revivalist movements, or the ‘certainising’ logics imbued in discourses around risk and securitization, time does much work to legitimate p...
TL;DR: In his book What is Philosophy as mentioned in this paper, Giorgio Agamben evokes the relationship between mythology and theory: "In philosophy, hypotheses necessarily have a mythical character, namely that they are alwa...
Abstract: In his book, What is Philosophy 1 ? Giorgio Agamben evokes the relationship between mythology and theory: “In philosophy, hypotheses necessarily have a mythical character, namely that they are alwa...