TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE *
INTRODUCTION *
1 Current profiles of law and literary studies *
2 The law-literature divide *
3 Law, literature and liberal democracy *
4 The three pillars of time *
6 Phenomenology: a brief note on methodology *
7 Outline of key arguments *
1 Law, Literature and the Space of Appearance *
1 Appearance, reality, truth: the birth of history and the beginning of time *
2 Poverty, politics and poetry *
3 The literary exception and the rule of law *
4 Profound poetry and shallow law? *
5 The darkness of the human heart, the hiatus of time *
2 Law, Literature, Event *
1 Law and literature: a constellation of two trajectories *
2 From eutopia to utopia: the transformation of the utopian imagination *
3 U-topos and event *
4 The literary response to the event *
5 The law’s response to the event *
6 The pillars of time *
3 REVOLUTIONARIES, RENEGADES AND REFUGEES *
1 When time gives *
2 The visible and the invisible Mandela *
3 The renegade moment *
4 Bram Fischer’s madness *
5 Refugee status: when time breaks *
6 The destruction of the world *
7 The end of an era *
8 The poetic descent into the hiatus of time *
9 The refugee, the renegade and the revolutionary *
4 THE LITERAL EXCEPTION *
1 T.S. Eliot, Schmitt and Hamlet *
2 Schmitt, Gadamer and Hamlet *
3. Schmitt and Däubler *
4 Vosskuhle, Kohlhaas, Kleist *
5 Nussbaum, Posner, Holmes, Dickens *
5 THE RULE OF LAW *
1 The Example of Mens rea *
2 Legal hermeneutics *
3 Legal justice *
6 THE LITERARY EXCEPTION *
1 Léo Tolstoy: the lawless event of history *
2 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Cormac McCarthy: poetry of lawlessness *
3 Faulkner: The convulsion of language and time *
4 Dostoyevsky’s idiot and J.M. Coetzee’s Dostoyevsky: the inhuman event of poetry *
7 LAW, LITERATURE, TIME *
1 The space of appearance and the crisis of language *
2 Utopia, eutopia and the two trajectories of language *
3 Revolutionaries, renegades and refugees *
4 The "tight spot" between the finite and the infinite *
5 The literal exception *
6 The literary exception *
7 The rule of law *
8 The pillars of time: law, literature, event *
9 Vertical and horizontal gifts of time *
BIBLIOGRAPHY *
INDEX *
