The Idea of Justice in Literature

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kabashima, Hiroshi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Liu, Shing-I (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Luetge, Christoph (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), de Prada García, Aurelio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Wirtschaftsethik in der globalisierten Welt,
• Subjects: Business ethics.; Business Ethics.

The theme arises from the legal-academic movement "Law and Literature". This newly developed field should aim at two major goals, first, to investigate the meaning of law in a social context by questioning how the characters appearing in literary works understand and behave themselves to t...

Table of Contents:

• What justice? Things as they are
• From Brave New World to the Island : Huxley's tales about the Alternatives to Law?
• Democracy, Law, Judges and Solitude- Some reflections from Walden and the Lake Isle of Innisfree"
• Romanticism and Political Violence
• Legal Poetics for Legal Thoughts
• Widerstand im Namen der Gerechtigkeit
• A Penny for Your Thoughts: The Conceptions of Justice in the Literature of Cora Coralina
• The Idea of the Honest Businessman in Literature
• Taming the Anger : One Jurisprudential Reading of Two Greek Dramas
• Der Sinn des Rechtsgedankens
• The Concept of Gewalt in Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of Law
• The Heads of Justice
• Justice without Formulas. Interpretations of Polish Nobels Prize Winners in the 20th Centry
• Legal reasoning in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
• Kafka und Schwejk - Die Karikatur des modernen Rechtssystems und das Gefühl der Ungerechtigkeit.