Kafka and legal critique

Buonamano, R

Kafka and legal critique

Buonamano, R

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Griffith Law Review, 2016, 25 (4), pp. 581 - 599
Issue Date:: 2016-10-01

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dc.contributor.author	Buonamano, R https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1545-4713	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:01:56Z
dc.date.issued	2016-10-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Griffith Law Review, 2016, 25 (4), pp. 581 - 599	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1038-3441	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/73470
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Griffith University. Kafka’s preoccupation with the law and legal institutions within his fictional writings has always been a particularly fecund source of ideas for legal and political philosophy. Notwithstanding the justifiable emphasis on the historical and biographical situation of Kafka’s literary texts in jurisprudential commentary, those texts may also serve a valuable, autonomous function as a form of legal critique that supplements the doctrinal approaches of conventional legal theory. With this context in mind, the article presents a critical reading of three dominant juridical themes in Kafka’s fiction: the relationship between slander and guilt; the significance of judgement over justice in the legal process; and the association of necessity and immanence in the constitution of the legal subject. It seeks to demonstrate the specific contributions to legal critique of the rhetorical, structural and aesthetic elements of Kafka’s fictional treatment of law and legal authority.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Griffith Law Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/10383441.2016.1273167	en_US
dc.title	Kafka and legal critique	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	4	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	25	en_US
utslib.for	1801 Law	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	4	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	25	en_US

Abstract:

© 2017 Griffith University. Kafka’s preoccupation with the law and legal institutions within his fictional writings has always been a particularly fecund source of ideas for legal and political philosophy. Notwithstanding the justifiable emphasis on the historical and biographical situation of Kafka’s literary texts in jurisprudential commentary, those texts may also serve a valuable, autonomous function as a form of legal critique that supplements the doctrinal approaches of conventional legal theory. With this context in mind, the article presents a critical reading of three dominant juridical themes in Kafka’s fiction: the relationship between slander and guilt; the significance of judgement over justice in the legal process; and the association of necessity and immanence in the constitution of the legal subject. It seeks to demonstrate the specific contributions to legal critique of the rhetorical, structural and aesthetic elements of Kafka’s fictional treatment of law and legal authority.

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