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Author:   Johan Van Der Walt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367640316

ISBN 10:   0367640317
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   20 July 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE * INTRODUCTION * 1 Current profiles of law and literary studies * 2 The law-literature divide * 3 Law, literature and liberal democracy * 4 The three pillars of time * 6 Phenomenology: a brief note on methodology * 7 Outline of key arguments * 1 Law, Literature and the Space of Appearance * 1 Appearance, reality, truth: the birth of history and the beginning of time * 2 Poverty, politics and poetry * 3 The literary exception and the rule of law * 4 Profound poetry and shallow law? * 5 The darkness of the human heart, the hiatus of time * 2 Law, Literature, Event * 1 Law and literature: a constellation of two trajectories * 2 From eutopia to utopia: the transformation of the utopian imagination * 3 U-topos and event * 4 The literary response to the event * 5 The law’s response to the event * 6 The pillars of time * 3 REVOLUTIONARIES, RENEGADES AND REFUGEES * 1 When time gives * 2 The visible and the invisible Mandela * 3 The renegade moment * 4 Bram Fischer’s madness * 5 Refugee status: when time breaks * 6 The destruction of the world * 7 The end of an era * 8 The poetic descent into the hiatus of time * 9 The refugee, the renegade and the revolutionary * 4 THE LITERAL EXCEPTION * 1 T.S. Eliot, Schmitt and Hamlet * 2 Schmitt, Gadamer and Hamlet * 3. Schmitt and Däubler * 4 Voßkuhle, Kohlhaas, Kleist * 5 Nussbaum, Posner, Holmes, Dickens * 5 THE RULE OF LAW * 1 The Example of Mens rea * 2 Legal hermeneutics * 3 Legal justice * 6 THE LITERARY EXCEPTION * 1 Léo Tolstoy: the lawless event of history * 2 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Cormac McCarthy: poetry of lawlessness * 3 Faulkner: The convulsion of language and time * 4 Dostoyevsky’s idiot and J.M. Coetzee’s Dostoyevsky: the inhuman event of poetry * 7 LAW, LITERATURE, TIME * 1 The space of appearance and the crisis of language * 2 Utopia, eutopia and the two trajectories of language * 3 Revolutionaries, renegades and refugees * 4 The ""tight spot"" between the finite and the infinite * 5 The literal exception * 6 The literary exception * 7 The rule of law * 8 The pillars of time: law, literature, event * 9 Vertical and horizontal gifts of time * BIBLIOGRAPHY * INDEX *"

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Johan van der Walt is Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Luxembourg and Extraordinary Professor of Law, University of the Free State.

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