Recht, Gerechtigkeit, Sprache, Literatur …

Von Christine Corcos (L&H Blog) kommt der Hinweis auf Gary Watt: Equity Stirring. The Story of Justice Beyond Law. Oxford UK: Hart Publishing 2009. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “This book is an exploration of the meaning of equity as artists and thinkers have portrayed it within the law and without. Watt finds in law and literature an equity that is necessary to good life and good law but which does not require us to subscribe to a moral or ‘natural law’ ideal. It is an equity that takes a principled and practical stand against rigid formalism and unthinking routine in law and life, and so provides timely resistance to current forces of extremism and entitlement culture. The project is an educational one in the true etymological sense of leading the reader out into new territory”. (Merriam-Webster hilft mit Blick auf “equity” weniger als der erste Satz in Gaddis’ A Frolic of His Own.)

Aus der Einleitung: “The sub-title also indicates that this is the study of a story; it is a cultural, linguistic and litcrary history of an ancient and universal feature of human engagement with regulation and routine. It is not an empirical or doctrinal analysis (although I hope to add something to our doctrinal understanding of legal equity, and to say something about the limits of the empirical and doctrinal in the field of law); it is, rather, a study of the idca of equity across many fields of the arts and humanities, and a study of the common law idea of equity from the perspective of the arts and humanities” (p vii). Und: “Dickens and Shakespeare are the writers most often referred to throughout this study, and chaptcr five, with its focus on Dickens’ Bleak House; leads to chapter six, on ‘Shakespeares Equity’. I am aware that there might appear to be a certain irony in the fact that my search for the virtue of departing from norms has taken me to two of the most enduringly popular writers in the mainstrcam literary canon” (S. ix).

“Lots of footnotes, an amazing bibliography”, schreibt Christine Corcos zudem. Na denn.

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