Judging from Experience
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Judging from Experience

Law, Praxis, Humanities

  1. 318 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Judging from Experience

Law, Praxis, Humanities

About this book

Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for legal practice. This volume addresses judgment and interpretation as a central concern within the field of law, literature and humanities. It is not only a study of law as praxis that combines academic legal theory with judicial practice, but proposes both as central to humanistic jurisprudence and as a training in the conduct of public life. Drawing extensively on philosophical and legal scholarship and through analysis of literary works from Gustave Flaubert, Robert Musil, Gerrit Achterberg, Ian McEwan, Michel Houellebecq and Juli Zeh, Jeanna Gaakeer proposes a perspective on law as part of the humanities that will inspire legal professionals, scholars and advanced students of law alike.

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Table of contents

  1. Judging from Experience
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I The Enchantment of Knowledge: Fact and Fiction in Law and Literature
  7. 1 The Enchantment of Knowledge and its Apotheosis: Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet
  8. 2 A Raid on the Inarticulate
  9. 3 Explanation or Understanding: Language and Interdisciplinarity
  10. 4 Understanding Fact and Fiction in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities
  11. 5 Poetry That Does Not Fade: Gerrit Achterberg’s Experience with Law and Forensic Psychiatry
  12. Part II Iuris Prudentia or Insightful Knowledge of Law
  13. 6 Practical Knowledge: Facts, Norms, and Phronèsis
  14. 7 Metaphor and (Dis)belief
  15. 8 Narrative Intelligence: Empathy, Mimesis and the Equitable
  16. 9 Towards a Legal Narratology I: Probability, Fidelity and Plot
  17. 10 Towards a Legal Narratology II: Implications and Pathologies
  18. Part III The Perplexity of Judges
  19. 11 Empathy Revisited: Who’s in Narrative Control?
  20. 12 Person and Poiesis in Technology and Law: Questioning Builds a Way
  21. 13 Control, Alt, Delete? Information Technology and the Human
  22. Coda
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index