The Judicial Imagination:Writing after Nuremburg

Stonebridge, Lyndsey (2011) The Judicial Imagination:Writing after Nuremburg. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748642359

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Abstract

Returning to the work of Hannah Arendt as a theoretical starting point, Lyndsey Stonebridge traces an aesthetics of judgement in postwar writers and intellectuals, including including Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch. Writing in the false dawn of a new era of international justice and human rights, these complicated women intellectuals were drawn to the law because of its promise of justice, yet critical of its political blindness and suspicious of its moral claims. Bringing together literary-legal theory with trauma studies, The Judicial Imagination, argues that today we have much to learn from these writers' impassioned scepticism about the law's ability to legislate for the territorial violence of our times.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network
Depositing User:	Sarah Burbidge
Date Deposited:	14 Jul 2011 09:20
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2022 16:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/33698
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