1st Edition

Exemplarity and Singularity Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law

Edited By Michele Lowrie, Susanne Lüdemann Copyright 2015
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is historically rooted firmly in ancient Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and law – genres that also... Read more

1. Introduction: Michèle Lowrie and Susanne LüdemannI. The Practice of Theory: A Historical Reminder,  2. Hans Lipps, Instance, Example, Case, and the Relationship of the Legal Case to the Law,  3. Bernhard Waldenfels, For Example,  4. Anselm Haverkamp, Equivalence Unbalanced – Metaphor, Case, and Example – from Aristotle to Derrida,  5. Eva Geulen, Without Example: Adorno,  II. The Roman Practice of Exemplarity,  6. Rebecca Langlands, Roman Exemplarity: Mediating between General and Particular,  7. Matthew Roller, Between Unique and Typical: Senecan Exempla in a List,  8. Melanie Möller, Exemplum and Exceptio: Building Blocks for a Rhetorical Theory of the Exceptional Case,  9. Clifford Ando, Exemplum, Analogy, and Precedent in Roman Law,  10. John P. McCormick, Machiavelli’s Agathocles: From Criminal Example to Princely Exemplum,  III. Exemplarity / Singularity,  11. Peter Goodrich, The Exampleless Example: Of the Infinite Particularities of Early Modern Common Law,  12. Christiane Frey, Bacon’s Bee: the Physiognomy of the Singular,  13. David Martyn, The Temper of Exemplarity: Werther’s Horse,  14. Robert Morrissey, Stendhal: Julien Sorel in the Footsteps of Napoleon,  15. Paul Fleming, Beside Oneself: Parapraxis as a Paradigm of Everyday Life (Freud)

Biography

Michèle Lowrie is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago; Susanne Lüdemann is Professor of Languages and Literatures at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich;