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OverviewUnhampered by the practical limits lawyers and judges face, literature expresses the unspoken sentiments that underpin legal doctrine. Through readings of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Hannah Arendt, as well as legal opinions and treatises, this book considers both law and literature as necessary complements in the efforts to take responsibility for the loss and damage inflicted by war. Ravit Reichman expertly charts the terrain that underwrites the law, proposing that the traumas, anxieties, and hopes that shape a culture's relationship to justice are realized in more than practical legal terms alone. Between the world wars, traditional notions of responsibility proved inadequate to address postwar trauma. Legal changes, following changes in literary language, placed new demands on writers to tell the story of law's response to wartime atrocities, and literature began to encourage readers to imagine the world not as it is, but as it ought to be. Our understanding of concepts such as Crimes Against Humanity or Crimes Against the Jewish People is a legacy of modernism's relationship to narrative and subjectivity. The Affective Life of Law examines the inheritance of this legacy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ravit ReichmanPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 45.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780804761666ISBN 10: 0804761663 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 21 May 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Affective Life of Law is a brilliant contribution to our understanding of how the legal and literary imaginations respond to the breakdown of old values and help to articulate new ones. The great wars of the twentieth century raised unprecedented questions about the meaning of memory and inheritance, and the moral relation of each of us to the suffering of anonymous strangers. In this original and wide-rangingbook, Ravit Reichman shows how both literature and law shaped the emergence of a new public order, inspired by new moral beliefs, in the wake of these two catastrophes. She explores this theme with subtlety and imagination, bringing into coherent relation materials as seemingly remote as Mrs. Dalloway and the judicial opinions of Benjamin Cardozo. Reichman helps us better understand the law as a cultural phenomenon, stretching and challenging the expectations of readers who approach it from either of the fields she bridges. The Affective Life of Law deserves an audience The Affective Life of Law is a brilliant contribution to our understanding of how the legal and literary imaginations respond to the breakdown of old values and help to articulate new ones. The great wars of the twentieth century raised unprecedented questions about the meaning of memory and inheritance, and the moral relation of each of us to the suffering of anonymous strangers. In this original and wide-rangingbook, Ravit Reichman shows how both literature and law shaped the emergence of a new public order, inspired by new moral beliefs, in the wake of these two catastrophes. She explores this theme with subtlety and imagination, bringing into coherent relation materials as seemingly remote as Mrs. Dalloway and the judicial opinions of Benjamin Cardozo. Reichman helps us better understand the law as a cultural phenomenon, stretching and challenging the expectations of readers who approach it from either of the fields she bridges. The Affective Life of Law deserves an audience as wide as its aspirations. --Anthony Kronman, Yale Law School Author InformationRavit Reichman is the Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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