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Judging from experience : law, praxis, humanities / Jeanne Gaakeer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaakeer, A. M. P., author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
- Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Practice of law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental-European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for legal practice.
- Contents:
- PART 1 The enchantment of knowledge : fact and fiction in law and literature. The enchantment of knowledge and its apotheosis : Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Péuchet
- A raid on the inarticulate
- Explanation or understanding : language and interdisciplinarity
- Understanding fact and fiction in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities
- Poetry that does not fade : Gerrit Achterberg's experience with law and forensic psychiatry
- PART II Iuris prudentia or insightfu knowledge of law. Practical knowledge : facts, norms and phronésis
- Metaphor and (Dis)belief
- Narrative intelligence : empathy, mimesis and the equitable
- Towards a legal narratology I : probability, fidelity and plot
- Towards a legal narratology II : implications and pathologies
- PART III The perplexity of judges. Empathy revisited : who's in narrative control?
- Person and poiesis in technology and law : questioning builds a way
- Control, alt, delete? Information technology and the human new kids on the law block?.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781474442503
- 1474442501
- 9781474460286
- 1474460283
- OCLC:
- 1312726551
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