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Art as an Interface of Law and Justice Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Art as an Interface of Law and Justice By Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Art as an Interface of Law and Justice by Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University, the Netherlands)


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Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption by Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

This book looks at the way in which the call for justice is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law. Calls for justice may have their positive connotations, but throughout history most have caused annoyance. Art is very well suited to deal with such annoyance, or to provoke it. This study shows how art operates as an interface, here, between two spheres: the larger realm of justice and the more specific system of law. This interface has a double potential. It can make law and justice affirm or productively disturb one another. Approaching issues of injustice that are felt globally, eight chapters focus on original works of art not dealt with before, including Milo Raus The Congo Tribunal, Elfriede Jelineks Ulrike Maria Stuart, Valeria Luisellis Tell Me How It Ends and Nicolas Winding Refns Only God Forgives. They demonstrate how through arts interface, impasses are addressed, new laws are made imaginable, the span of systems of laws is explored, and the differences in what people consider to be just are brought to light. The book considers the improvement of law and justice to be a global struggle and, whilst the issues dealt with are culture-specific, it argues that the logics introduced are applicable everywhere.

Art as an Interface of Law and Justice Reviews

A thought-provoking and well-considered book that builds toward a general theory of law and justice but that is also able to include in-depth analyses of multiple different literary/artistic works that span genres. -- Susan Tanner, Louisiana State University Law Center * Hedgehogs and Foxes *

About Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Frans-Willem Korsten holds the chair in 'Literature and Society' at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and is working at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society in the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

1. Art as the Interface of Law and Justice: From Annoyance to an Ethics of Affirmation I. Law Justice and Art as Interface II. System, Realm and Two Kinds of Logic: Affirmation and Disturbance III. Thirds: Forces of Disruption and Impasse IV. In Defence of Law, as a Defence of Justice V. Art, Annoyance and an Ethics of Affirmation 2. Logic of Fear vs Logic of Desire: Milo Raus The Congo Tribunal and the Care for Law I. Absent Rule of Law and the Potential in Arts Interface II. Laws Genesis, Fear of Law and the Nature of Courts III. Apathy: The Threat to Law and Justice IV. Theatre and Drama: Dunamis and the Judicial Mise-en-scene V. The Care for Law: Jurisannihilatio and Juriscaritas 3. Logic of Tragedy vs Logic of Comedy: Elfriede Jelineks Ulrike Maria Stuart and Princess-dramas: Death and the Maiden I. Open or Closed: Tragedy, Comedy, Impasse II. Culture-text and the Cohabitation of Symbolic Order and Law III. Mary Stuart and Ulrike Meinhof: Laws Domesticity and Mystery IV. The Weight of Laws Architectonic: Sovereignty 4. Logic of the Official vs Logic of the Officious: The Force in Form and Forum in Valeria Luisellis Tell Me How It Ends and Lost Children Archive I. Officious: Meddlesome, Informal, Obliging, Passionate II. Data Subjects: Records, Documents and Form III. Offentlichkeit, Publicity and Forum IV. The Destructive Fictitious and the Test of Fiction: Forensic Architecture 5. Logic of Personhood vs Logic of Self: Threat of Packs in Vondels Water-wolf and the Shift of Commons into Property I. Personhood, Self, Pack and the Legal Need for Dissection II. The Art of Mapping: From Centralisation to Ecological Territorialisation III. Waters as Wolf Packs: Tropes of Infuriation IV. The Veil of Irresponsibility, New Persons, New Selves 6. Logic of Completion vs Logic of Antinomy: Corruption and Well-being from Marek Hlasko, to Chibundu Onuzo, to the American Suburban Grass Turf and Fritz Haeg I. Corruption, Laws Completion and Antinomy II. Its Not Me: A Culture of Corruption III. Functional Corruption and the Proper IV. Corruption in an Ecological Context: Needs for an Antinomian Response 7. Logic of Violence vs Logic of Empathy: Justice and Law in Chiasmus through George Eliots Daniel Deronda I. The Political in Justice: Interests and Just Law II. Two Modes of Wilfulness and the Chiasmus of Law and Justice III. Obliviousness and the Grey Area between Law and Justice IV. Divisive Empathy, Cohesive Violence 8. Logic of Reason vs Logic of Dream: Epistemic Authority, Habeas Corpus, Hallucination Nicholas Refns Only God Forgives I. Reason, Dream and Disruptive Hallucination II. Epistemic Authority and Deviant Investigators in Times of Multiple Insurgencies III. Habeas Corpus: Historical Struggles for a Common Ground IV. Familiar Orders and Current Unchecked Powers

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NLS9781509944385
9781509944385
1509944389
Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption by Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2022-10-20
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