Law and Aesthetics

by Adam Gearey

Book Overview

Law and Aesthetics draws on the work of poets as well as philosophers. Taking as its starting point Shelleys assertion that poets are unacknowledged legislators, the book suggests that there is a way of thinking that, as yet, has not been taken up by those who make use of literary aesthetics to understand law. The book tracks this aesthetic thinking through the failures of critical legal studies and stages an encounter with psychoanalysis, before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841130265
• ISBN13: 9781841130262
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"