Judging from Experience : : Law, Praxis, Humanities / / Jeanne Gaakeer.

A unique application of philosophical hermeneutics, literary theory and narratology to the practice of judgingCombining her expertise in legal theory and her judicial practice in criminal law in a Court of Appeal, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I The Enchantment of Knowledge: Fact and Fiction in Law and Literature
  • 1 The Enchantment of Knowledge and its Apotheosis: Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet
  • 2 A Raid on the Inarticulate
  • 3 Explanation or Understanding: Language and Interdisciplinarity
  • 4 Understanding Fact and Fiction in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities
  • 5 Poetry that Does not Fade: Gerrit Achterberg’s Experience with Law and Forensic Psychiatry
  • Part II Iuris Prudentia or Insightful Knowledge of Law
  • 6 Practical Knowledge: Facts, Norms and Phronèsis
  • 7 Metaphor and (Dis)belief
  • 8 Narrative Intelligence: Empathy, Mimesis and the Equitable
  • 9 Towards a Legal Narratology I: Probability, Fidelity and Plot
  • 10 Towards a Legal Narratology II: Implications and Pathologies
  • Part III The Perplexity of Judges
  • 11 Empathy Revisited: Who’s in Narrative Control?
  • 12 Person and Poiesis in Technology and Law: Questioning Builds a Way
  • 13 Control, Alt, Delete? Information Technology and the Human
  • Coda
  • Bibliography
  • Index