The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching across the myriad constitutive disciplines of law, literature and the humanities in order to present an array of alternative perspectives on the nature and meaning of human rights in the modern world. The taking of human rights seriously, it will be suggested, depends just as much on taking seriously the idea of the human as it does the idea of rights.
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The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse
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Index
Adam, R.1
Addison, T. 1–2
The Trial of Count Tariff 1
Aeschylus 1
Oresteia 1
Alambert, J. d’ 1
Alcmaeon 1
Anaximander 1–2
Antunes, A. 1
Aquinas, St. T. 1
Arendt, H. 1
Aristotle 1–2, 3, 4, 5
Ethics 1
Poetics 1, 2
Attlee, C. 1
Auerbach, N. 1
Auslander, P. 1
Austen, J. 1
Bakhtin, M. 1–2, 3, 4
Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics 1
Barthes, R. 1 S/Z 2
Bateson, G. 1
Baxi, U. 1
Beccaria, C. 1–2, 3–4, 5–6
Disquisitions on the Nature of Style 1–2, 3–4, 5
Essay on Crimes and Punishments 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Berger, B. 1
Bhabha, H. 1
Bickerstaff, I. 1
The Padlock 1
Bloom, P. 1
Borstelmann, T. 1
The 1970s: A New Global History 1
Boym, S. 1
Breytenbach, B. 1
Brink, A. 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, 8–9
Die Eerrse Lewe van Adamastor 1–2
Gerugte van Reen 1, 2
‘n Droe Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap 1, 2, 3, 4
Sandkastele 1, 2
The Rights of Desire 1
Brittain, V. 1, 2
Guantanamo 1, 2–3, 4, 5
Brontë, A. 1, 2
The Tenant of Wild fell Hall 1
Brougham, Lord 1
Brown, L. 1
Buergenthal, T. 1
Burdett Coutts, A. 1
Burke, E. 1–2, 3
Burkovsky, V. 1
Bush, G. 1
Caird, M. 1
Callon, M. 1
Calvino, I. 1
Carr, J. 1
Chippendale, T. 1
Clarkson, T. 1
Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species 1
Cobbe, F. 1
Coetzee, J. 1, 2, 3, 4
Disgrace 1, 2, 3–4
Elizabeth Costello 1
The Lives of Animals 1
Condillac, E. 1, 2
Cornell, D. 1
Crotty, K. 1
Dabydeen, D. 1
A Harlot’s Progress 1
Defoe, D. 1, 2
Life of Captain Jacques 1
Life of Captain Singleton 1
Deleuze, G. 1–2, 3
Demeny, P. 1
Descartes, R. 1
Desai, K. 1
Dicey, A. 1
Dickens, C. 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9–10
Bleak House 1
Dombey and Son 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hard Times 1–2, 3
Nicholas Nickleby 1
Oliver Twist 1
Pickwick Papers 1
Dolin, D. 1
Donnarumma, R. 1, 2
Dostoevsky, F. 1–2, 3–4, 5–6
Notes from the Underground 1
The Double 1
Dworkin, R. 1
Eliot, G. 1–2
Equiano, O. 1
The Life of Oulaudah Equiano 1
Falco, M. 1
Farber, Y. 1
Molora 1
Fawcett, J. 1
Obi 1
Finnis, J. 1
Foucault, M. 1, 2–3
Forster, J. 1
Foscolo, U. 1
Italian Periodical Literature 1
Franklin, B. 1
Freud, S. 1–2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7
Civilization and its Discontents 1
Gadamer, H. 1, 2
Gaddis, W. 1
Gainsborough, T. 1
Gandhi, M. 1
Gaskell, E. 1
Gibbon, E. 1
Glendon, M. 1
Goethe, J.W. v. 1
Wilhelm Meister 1
Gottschall, J. 1
The Storytelling Animal 1
Guattari, F. 1
Gupta, N. 1
Habermas, J. 1
Hare, D. 1
Stuff Happens 1
The Permanent Way 1
Havelock, E. 1
Hegel, G. 1, 2, 3
Heidegger, M. 1, 2
Helvetius, C. 1
Hobbes, T. 1–2
Hogarth, W. 1, 2, 3, 4
A Harlot’s Progress 1
Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1
Marriage a la Mode 1, 2
Southwark Fair 1
The Analysis of Beauty 1
Hume, D. 1
Hunt, L. 1, 2
Inventing Human Rights 1
Hunter, W. 1
Husserl, E. 1
Hutchinson, A. 1
Irvine, Lord 1–2
Izambard, G. 1
Jackson, T. 1
From Civil Rights to Human Rights 1
Jonker, I. 1
Kafka, K. 1
The Trial 1
Kant, I. 1, 2, 3–4, 5
Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals 1, 2
Metaphysics of Morals 1–2, 3
Kapur, M. 1, 2
Difficult Daughters 1, 2
Keats, J. 1, 2
Kennedy, D. 1
Kent, N. 1
Kenyatta, J. 1–2
Kierkegaard, S. 1
Klemperer, V. 1
Kreamer, A. 1–2
Kundera, M. 1
The Art of the Novel 1
Lacan, J. 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7
Lascelles, E. 1
Leibniz, G. 1
Leroux, E. 1
Magersfontein, O Magersfontein! 1
Littell, J. 1
The Kindly Ones 1
Llewellyn, K. 1
Locke, J. 1, 2, 3
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1
Treatises on Government 1
Lorca, F. 1
Louw, N. 1
Lynn, S. 1, 2
Maitland, F. 1
Mansfield, Lord 1
Markandaya, K. 1, 2
Nectar in a Sieve 1
Marowitz, C. 1, 2, 3–4
Marshall, Justice T. 1, 2, 3, 4
Mratin, C. 1
Marx, K. 1, 2
McGilchrist, I. 1, 2–3
The Master and his Emissary 1
McGrath, P. 1–2, 3, 4, 5
Asylum 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Dr Haggard’s Disease 1
Spider 1
Melmoth, C. 1
Humanity 1
Mill, J. 1
Miller, J. 1
Montesquieu, Baron de 1
Morellet, A. 1
Mortimer, J. 1, 2
Rumpole and the Angel of Death 1
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror 1, 2–3, 4
Rumpole and the Rights of Man 1, 2
Nagel, T. 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6–7
Nelson, Lord 1
Nicholls, Lord 1, 2
Nietzsche, F. 1, 2, 3
Norton Taylor, R. 1
Bloody Sunday 1
The Colour of Justice 1
Nussbaum, M. 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6–7, 8–9
Cultivating Humanity 1
Poetic Justice 1, 2, 3
Oatley, K. 1–2, 3–4
Such Stuff as Dreams 1
The Passionate Muse 1
Paine, T. 1, 2
The Rights of Man 1, 2
Pallazzani, L. 1
Palmerston, Lord 1
Peirce, G. 1
Perlman, E. 1, 2–3, 4–5, 6
The Street Cleaner 1–2, 3, 4
Pessoa, F. 1, 2–3
Book of Disquiet 1
Pink, D. 1–2
Pinker, S. 1–2, 3
The Better Angels of Our Nature 1–2
Plato 1–2, 3, 4
Poe, E. 1, 2
Pretorius, A. 1
Prinz, J. 1, 2
Rawls, J. 1
Reich, K. 1, 2, 3, 4
Deja Dead 1
Reynolds, J. 1–2
Omai 1–2
Riccardo, D. 1
Richardson, S. 1
Clarissa 1
Pamela 1
Rilke, R. M. 1
Rimbaud, A. 1, 2
Rodin, A. 1
Rorty, R. 1, 2
Rowley, A. 1
Rumsfeld, D. 1
Ruskin, J. 1–2
Of Queen’s Gardens 1
Sancho, I. 1
Theory of Music 1
Sanders, M. 1
Santayana, G. 1
Scarry, E. 1
Schmitt, C. 1
Schneck, P. 1
Shakespeare, W. 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8
The Merchant of Venice 1, 2
Sharp, G. 1
Shelley, P. 1
Simondon, G. 1, 2–3
Simplicius 1
Slater, M. 1, 2
The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta 1
Slaughter, J. 1–2, 3–4
Slovo, G. 1
Smith, A. 1, 2, 3
Sousa, B. de 1
Spiegelberg, H. 1
Sterne, L. 1, 2
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 1
Stevenson, R. 1
Steyn, Lord 1–2
Stirner, M. 1
Thackeray, W. M. 1–2
The Newcomes 1
Thatcher, M. 1
Theophrastus 1
Todorov, T. 1–2
Trollope, A. 1
Tsang, S. 1
Tugendhat, M. 1
Turner, W. 1, 2–3
Shipwreck of the Minotaur 1
Slave Ship 1
Tushnet, M. 1
Ulpian 1
Vatsyayana 1–2
Kama Sutra 1–2
Voltaire 1
Waal, F. de 1
Wagner, D. 1
Waldron, J. 1–2, 3
Walker, T. 1
Ward, I. 1, 2
Wedgwood, J. 1
Weisberg, R. 1
Wesker, A. 1, 2–3, 4–5
White, J. 1, 2
Living Speech 1
Wittgenstein, L. 1
Wollstonecraft, M. 1
Wordsworth, W. 1, 2
Žižek, S. 1, 2
1
Kieran Dolin, A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007), 2.
2
See here C.R.B.Dunlop, “Literature Studies in Law Schools,” Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, 3 (1991): 63–110, and Ian Ward, “The Educative Ambition of Law and Literature,” Legal Studies 13 (1993): 323–31.
3
Richard Weisberg, Poethics: and other strategies of law and literature (New York: Columbia UP, 1992), 46.
4
Drucilla Cornell, The Philosophy of the Limit (London: Routledge, 1992), 62.
5
Martha C. Nussbaum, Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life (New York: Beacon Press, 1995), xvi.
6
Nussbaum, Poetic Justice, 118–119.
7
Martha C. Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Legal Education (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard UP, 1997), 10–11.
8
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Table of contents
- Law & Literature
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Literature and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse
- Empathy, Literature and Human Rights: The Case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper
- Privacy, Blighted Lives, and a Blindspot in British Law
- A Squeamishness about Existing: Fernando Pessoa’s Quiet Rejection of the Human in The Book of Disquiet
- I and Another: Rethinking the Subject of Human Rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon
- Dehumanizing the Enemy: How to Avoid Human Rights
- Am I not a man and a brother? - Notes on the Representation of Slavery in Eighteenth Century English Art and Literature
- Mental Illness and Human Rights in Patrick McGrath’s Asylum
- The Role of Forensics in Human RightsDiscourse: Kathy Reichs’s Crime Fiction and the Rights of the Dead
- Rumpole and the Rights of Accused Terrorists
- Reality, Theatre and Human Rights
- The Rights and Wrongs of Marriage: Article16.2 UDHR and the Case of Edith Dombey
- Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and the Cause of Female Literacy in India
- The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, by MontaguSlater: Oral Tradition and Fundamental Rights in the Trial
- ‘n Droë Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: André Brink and the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa
- The Definition of “Linguistic Minority” - Linguistic versus Legal Perspectives
- Rights of Humans/Rights of Nature: The Language of Environmental Rights in UN Documents
- On Crimes, Punishments, and Words: Legaland Language Issues in Cesare Beccaria’s Works
- Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature
- Contributors
- Index
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