1st Edition
Empty Justice One Hundred Years of Law Literature and Philosophy
By Melanie Williams
Copyright 2002
274 Pages
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Routledge-Cavendish
340 Pages
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Routledge-Cavendish
340 Pages
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Routledge-Cavendish
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Utilising literature as a serious source of challenges to questions in philosophy and law, this book provides a fresh perspective not only upon the inculcation of the legal subject, but also upon the relationship between modernism, postmodernism and how such concepts might evolve in the construction of community ethics. The creation and role of the legal subject is just one aspect of... Read more
1. The Year 2000 - The Empty City: JG Ballard's Super-Cannes and JM Coetzee's Disgrace, 2. The 1890s – The Empty Wood: Tess of the D’Urbervilles Rape, Seduction and Provocation: Effacement of Identity at the Fin de siècle, 3. The Early 20th Century – The Empty Room ‘The Subject’ – Woolf, Joyce and The Viscountess Rhonda’s Claim, 4. The 1940s – The Empty War: Graham Green’s The Ministry of Fear and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day, 5. The 1960s – The Empty Island: JM Coetzee’s Foe, 7. Inconclusion, 8. Conclusion
Biography
Melanie Williams
