Empty justice : one hundred years of law, literature and philosophy : existential, feminist and normative perspectives in literary jurisprudence / Melanie Williams.
2002
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Author
Title
Empty justice : one hundred years of law, literature and philosophy : existential, feminist and normative perspectives in literary jurisprudence / Melanie Williams.
Published
London : Cavendish, 2002.
Call Number
K230.W537 E46 2002
ISBN
1859416144
Description
xxxviii, 238 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)46505281
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
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One hundred years of law, literature and philosophy
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Introduction
1
The Year 2000 - The Empty City: JG Ballard's Super-Cannes and JM Coetzee's Disgrace
1
Super-Cannes
5
The View from Super-Cannes: Pornography, Child Prostitutes and Corporate Life
10
Reasonable Man or 'Third Chimpanzee'?
12
Disgrace
17
2
The 1890s - The Empty Wood: Tess of the D'urbervilles Rape, Seduction and Provocation: Effacement of Identity at the Fin de Siecle
27
Pt. IPolar Versus Relational, 'Seduction' Versus 'Rape' - The Cultural Opposition in Representation
29
Pt. IITess of the D'urbervilles and the Law of Provocation
42
3
The Early 20th Century - The Empty Room 'The Subject' - Woolf, Joyce and the Viscountess Rhondda's Claim
61
The Viscountess Rhondda's Claim
62
Subject, Object, and the Nature of Reality
65
The Philosopher-Jurist
68
The Subjective Jurist
73
4
The 1940s - The Empty War: Graham Green's The Ministry of Fear and Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day
83
Fictions of War and Treason
85
The Ministry of Fear
86
The Elusive Nature of Virtue
87
Domestic History, 'Fabular' History, Historicism
91
The Heat of the Day
94
Meanwhile, Back at the Cave: The Role of Woman
97
'Domestic Fascism', Ideology and the Needy Individual
99
The Natural Law Revival
101
5
The 1960s - The Empty Shell: John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman and Iris Murdoch's Bruno's Dream
111
Bruno's Dream
112
Ethics in the Vertical Plane
113
The Horizontal Plane
118
The Moral, the Mortal, the Material
118
'Un'Gender and the Ethic of Care
119
The French Lieutenant's Woman
122
Existentialism and the Stricture of 'Gender' upon' Personhood'
123
Reflexive Text: Conscious and Unconscious Historicity and the Abortion Act
125
The French Lieutenant's Woman Before the Law: Then and Now
127
'Un'Gendered Jurisprudence
130
6
The 1980s - The Empty Island: JM Coetzee's FOE
137
The Trial(s) of the German Princess
139
FOE: Woman Interrogating the 'Island Space'
143
FOE and the Jurisprudence of the 1980s
150
Interpretation and Linguistics
152
'Big' Theory and Messianic Need
156
Law Not Necessarily Working Itself Pure
157
7
Inconclusion
165
Pt. IEmpty Signifiers
Introduction: Human Nature; Human Nurture; Psyche
165
Human Nature
167
Anthropology
170
The Psyche
172
Science and Philosophy, 'Nature' and 'Nurture'
174
Pt. IIThe Feminist Perspective
8
Conclusion
185
Negotiating Emptiness
185
The Existential and the Moral Life
187
'The Woman Who is the Door, the Man Without The Key ...'
193
The Existential and the Normative
205
Cave Writings
210
Bibliography
221
Index
231