
The Mirror of Justice
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Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, the book locates the works in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. It thereby associates and illuminates these masterpieces from an original point of view and contributes a new dimension to the study of literature and law.
In contrast to prevailing adherents of Law-and-Literature, this book professes Literature-and-Law, in which the emphasis is historical rather than theoretical, substantive rather than rhetorical, and literary rather than legal. Instead of adducing the literary work to illustrate debates about modern law, this book consults the history of law as an essential aid to the understanding of the literary text and its conflicts.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
- The Origins of Law
- The Evolution of Law
- The Dissociation of Law and Morality
- CHAPTER TWO: The Birth of Justice from the Spirit of Tragedy
- The Law of Blood
- Blood Vengeance in the Oresteia
- Aeschylus and the Areopagus
- From Tribe to Tribunal: The Eumenides
- CHAPTER THREE: The Ambivalence toward Pagan Law
- The Saga Age in Iceland
- Njal's Saga
- Legal Reality and the Aesthetics of Law
- Pagan Ethos and Christian Ethics
- Njala and Oresteia
- CHAPTER FOUR: The Role of Rome
- From Codification to Customary Law
- The Situation in Germany
- CHAPTER FIVE: The Disenchantment with Customary Law
- The Ironization of Ordeal
- The Trial of the Fox
- The Old French Renart
- The Middle High German Reinhart
- The Flemish Reinaert
- CHAPTER SIX: The Reception of Roman Law in Germany
- Lawyerly Skepticism: Sebastian Brant
- Professorial Disdain: Johannes Reuchlin
- Knightly Contempt: Ulrich von Hutten
- Humanist Ambivalence: Philipp Melanchthon
- CHAPTER SEVEN: European Variations
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Sir Thomas More
- François Rabelais
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Law and Equity I
- Antigone as Political Icon
- Antigone in Context
- Antigone and Creon
- Sophocles and Athens
- From Unwritten Law to Epieikeia
- CHAPTER NINE: Law and Equity II
- From Epieikeia to Equity
- Equity and Anomy in Elizabethan England
- The Merchant of Venice: Judicial Irregularities
- The Merchant of Venice: The State of Anomy
- CHAPTER TEN: The Attractions of Codification
- The Age of the Great Codes
- The Codification Controversy in Germany
- Kleist and the Prussian Code
- The Prussian Code in Kleist's Works
- Kleist's Critique of the Judicial System
- The Affirmation of Positive Law
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Modern Crisis of Law
- The Legal Situation in Fin-de-Siécle Austria
- Kafka and the Law
- The Trial: A Burlesque of Legal Procedure
- Kafka's Critique of the Law
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Twentieth-Century Legal Evolutions
- Totalitarian Law
- The Soviet Venue
- The Theory of Universal Guilt
- The Lure of Anarchism
- Justitia rediviva
- NOTES
- INDEX
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