1st Edition

The Experience of Tragic Judgment

By Julen Etxabe Copyright 2013
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

263 Pages
by Routledge

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world is not to be found, as many would suppose, in an impersonal set of procedures with which all... Read more

Introduction Antigone and the Experience of Legal Judgment; Chapter 1. A Window on the Normative World; Chapter 2. Antigone, Part I: Beginnings; Chapter 3. Incommensurability and Judgment; Chapter 4. Antigone, Part II: Transitions; Chapter 5. Acts of Reading, Acts of Judgment; Chapter 6. Antigone, Part III: Realizations; Chapter 7. The Temporalities of Judgment: Antigone and Law

Biography

Julen Etxabe is based at The Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research  at the University of Helsinki