Practising Equity, Addressing Law - Equity in Law and Literature

The present volume stems from our previous research on The Concept of Equity: A Diachronical Assessment (2007). The essays in this new collection demonstrate how lively and active the debate on equity has been and how difficult it is to find a concluding word on this topic. In literature a new idea concerning equity is slowly being shaped. The discourse offered by literature is of an alternative kind; we are reminded of the utopian function of equity in Plato s Republic, where it aims at transcending reality and the mimetic description of it. There is something mysterious about equity: we cannot grasp it easily in terms of rational argumentation. It is all about norm and its inversion; at the same time it is deconstructive. Thus sometimes equity appears to be beyond the sphere of reality and takes us into a mysterious and incomprehensible world.

Zusammenfassung

The present volume stems from our previous research on The Concept of Equity: A Diachronical Assessment (2007). The essays in this new collection demonstrate how lively and active the debate on equity has been and how difficult it is to find a concluding word on this topic. In literature a new idea concerning equity is slowly being shaped. The discourse offered by literature is of an alternative kind; we are reminded of the utopian function of equity in Plato's Republic, where it aims at transcending reality and the mimetic description of it. There is something mysterious about equity: we cannot grasp it easily in terms of rational argumentation. It is all about norm and its inversion; at the same time it is deconstructive. Thus sometimes equity appears to be beyond the sphere of reality and takes us into a mysterious and incomprehensible world.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Daniel Carpi (Herausgeber), Daniela Carpi (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9783825355616
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-5561-6
• Seiten: 462
• Gewicht: 922 g
• Serien: Anglistische Forschungen; Anglistische Forschungen
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Dickens, Charles, Capote, Truman, Shakespeare, William, Literature, Concepts of Law, Justice, Concepts of, Concepts of Equity, Concepts of Justice, Equity, Concepts of, Law, Concepts of