Law, Mystery, and the Humanities : : Collected Essays /

Law, Mystery, and the Humanities : : Collected Essays / / ed. by Logan Atkinson, Diana Majury.

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The trans-disciplinary study of law and the humanities is becoming a more widespread focus among scholars from a range of disciplines. Complementary in several major ways, concepts and theories of law can be used to formulate fresh ideas about the humanities, and vice versa. Law, Mystery, and the Hu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
HerausgeberIn:
Atkinson, Logan ,
Majury, Diana,
MitwirkendeR:
Atkinson, Logan,
Belleau, Marie-Claire,
Carr Vellino, Brenda,
Curle, Clinton Timothy,
Johnson, Rebecca,
Majury, Diana,
Moreau, Sophia,
Ogilvie, M. H.,
Papaux, Alain,
Samson, Rémi,
Sargent, Neil C.,
Wright, Barry,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2008
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Points of Convergence: Law, Mystery, and the Humanities
  • Part I. Rationality
  • 2. Murder and Mayhem in Legal Method: or, the Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes v. Sam Spade
  • 3. Analytic Philosophy and the Interpretation of Constitutional Rights
  • 4 Nature: From Philosophy of Science to Legal Theory ... and Back?
  • 5. Language and Law as Objects of Scientific Study
  • Part II. Dissent
  • 6. I Beg to Differ: Interdisciplinary Questions about Law, Language, and Dissent
  • 7. Imagining Sedition: Law and the Emerging Public Sphere in Upper Canada, c. 1798-1828
  • Part Three. Suffering
  • 8. Human Rights Poetry as Ethical Tribunal: Bodies and Bystanders in Margaret Atwood's 'Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture'
  • 9. Who Do We Blame for Blame? Moving beyond the Fiction of Blame in The Sweet Hereafter
  • 10. 'Our Woe ... Our Great Distress': Law, Literature, and Suffering during the Great Plague of London, 1665
  • Part IV. Transcendence
  • 11. The Strange Gospel and a Common Law: The Reconciling Word to a Fragmented World
  • 12. The Re-enchantment of the World? Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, and Human Rights
  • Contributors

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