Law and art : justice, ethics and aesthetics / edited by Oren Ben-Dor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben-Dor, Oren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and aesthetics.

Law and ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In?engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume?consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook singularity and spontaneity. Indeed, the exercise of the legal role and the scholarly understanding of legal texts were classically defined as ars iuris - an art of law - which drew on the panoply of humanist disciplines, from philology to fine art. That tradition has fallen by the wayside, particularly i

Contents:

Front Cover; Law and Art; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Standing before the gates of the law?: Oren Ben-Dor; Part I: Philosophical reflections: Law between ethics and aesthetics; 1. Poietic 'justice': Krzyszt of Ziarek; 2. Repetition Or the awnings of justice: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos; 3. Judaism in the no man's land between law and ethics: Ariella Atzmon; 4. Seizing truths: Art, politics, law: Igor Stramignoni; 5. Like the osprey to the fish: Shakespeare and the force of law: Richard Wilson

6. Agonic is not yet demonic? At the be-ginning there will have be-come a de-cision: Oren Ben-Dor7. Nella Larsen's feminist aesthetics: On curse, law, and laughter: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek; 8. I wish you well: Notes towards an aesthetics of welfare: Adam Gearey; Part II: When law meets art: Creativity, singularity and performance; 9. The torch of art and the sword of law: Between particularity and universality: Zenon Ban ́kowski and Maksymilian Del Mar; 10. The play of terror: Ian Ward; 11. The poetic ocean in Mare Liberum: Stephanie Jones

12. Reading law and literature: Three cases for conversation: Robin Lister13. Copyright activism as art: Aesthetics, ideology and ethics: Jaime Stapleton; 14. Musical performance, natural law and interpretation: Thomas Irvine; Part III: Law, justice and the image; 15. A legal phenomenology of images: Costas Douzinas; 16. Flores quae faciunt coronam or the flowers of common law: Peter Goodrich; 17. Law, ethics, and the imagery of suffering: Panu Minkkinen; 18. Governor Arthur's Proclamation: Images of the rule of law: Desmond Manderson; Epilogue: Kendell Geers, By Any Means Necessary, 1995

Index

Notes:

"A GlassHouse Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-71974-1

1-280-77708-7

9786613687470

1-136-71975-X

0-203-81610-2

9780203816103

OCLC:

797918667