Tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice
after Nuremberg
Returning to the work of Hannah Arendt as a theoretical starting
point, Lyndsey Stonebridge traces a critical aesthetics of
judgement in postwar writers and intellectuals, including Rebecca
West, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch. Writing in
the false dawn of a new era of international justice and human
rights, these complicated women intellectuals were drawn to the law
because of its promise of justice, yet critical of its political
blindness and suspicious of its moral claims. Bringing together
literary-legal theory with trauma studies, The Judicial Imagination
argues that today we have much to learn from these writers'
impassioned scepticism about the law's ability to legislate for the
territorial violence of our times.
Key Features
*Returns to the work of Hannah Arendt as the starting point for a
new theorisation of the relation between law and trauma
* Provides a new context for understanding the continuities between
late modernism and postwar writing through a focus on justice and
human rights
*Offers a model of reading between history, law and literature
which focuses on how matters of style and genre articulate moral,
philosophical and political ambiguities and perplexities
*Makes a significant contribution to the rapidly developing fields
of literary-legal and human rights studies
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