Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema: The Legal Drama of the Scapegoat

Wilson, Eric M.

Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema: The Legal Drama of the Scapegoat
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-06
  • 售價: $6,270
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 662
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 981971155X
  • ISBN-13: 9789819711550

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商品描述

This book is the first monograph to critically evaluate the work of the literary scholar René Girard from the perspectives of Law and Literature and Law and Film Studies, two of the most multidisciplinary branches of critical legal theory. The central thesis is that Girard's theory of the scapegoat mechanism provides a wholly new and original means of re-conceptualizing the nature of judicial modernity, which is the belief that modern Law constitutes an internally coherent and exclusively secular form of rationality.


The book argues that it is the archaic scapegoat mechanism - the reconciliation of the community through the direction of unified violence against a single victim - that actually works best in explaining all of the outstanding issues of Law and Literature in both of its sub-forms: law-as-literature (the analysis of legal language and practice exemplified by literacy texts) and law-in-literature (the exploration of issues in legal theory through the fictitious form of the novel).


The book will provide readers with: (i) a useful introduction to the most important elements of the work of René Girard; (ii) a greater awareness of the 'hidden' nature of legal culture and reasoning within a post-secular age; and (iii) a new understanding of the 'subversive' (or 'enlightening') nature of some of the most iconic works on Law in both Literature and Cinema, media which by their nature allow for the expression of truths repressed by formal legal discourse.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書是第一本從法律與文學以及法律與電影研究的角度批判性評估文學學者René Girard的著作的專著，這兩個領域是批判性法律理論中最多元學科的分支之一。中心論點是Girard的「替罪羊機制」理論提供了一種全新且獨特的方式來重新概念化司法現代性的本質，即現代法律構成一種內部一致且專屬世俗的理性形式的信念。

本書主張，正是古老的替罪羊機制──透過對單一受害者的統一暴力來實現社群和解──最能夠解釋法律與文學的所有重要問題，包括「法律即文學」（以文學作品為例的法律語言和實踐分析）和「文學中的法律」（透過小說等虛構形式探討法律理論問題）這兩個子領域。

本書將為讀者提供：(i) 關於René Girard著作最重要元素的有用介紹；(ii) 在後世俗時代對法律文化和推理的「隱藏」本質更深入的認識；以及 (iii) 對於法律在文學和電影中一些具有「顛覆性」（或「啟發性」）的代表作品的新理解，這些媒體本質上允許表達被正式法律論述壓抑的真理。

作者簡介

Eric M. Wilson studied early modern European history at Cambridge University under the direction of Robert W. Scribner, earning his Ph.D. in 1991. From 2000 to 2018, he served as Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, conducting extensive research and publishing on Hugo Grotius. In 2008, he was awarded the degree of S.J.D. from the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. Currently, he works as an independent scholar and researcher, with his primary areas of focus being radical criminology, phenomenology, literary studies, and law and literature. His work is highly interdisciplinary and strongly rooted in theory. Wilson has authored a series of works exploring the relationships among national security agencies, organized crime, and paramilitary organizations.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Eric M. Wilson於1991年在劍橋大學師從Robert W. Scribner研究早期現代歐洲歷史，並獲得博士學位。從2000年到2018年，他在澳洲墨爾本的蒙納士大學法學院擔任高級講師，進行廣泛的研究並發表關於Hugo Grotius的著作。2008年，他獲得墨爾本大學法學院頒發的S.J.D.學位。目前，他作為獨立學者和研究人員工作，主要研究領域包括激進犯罪學、現象學、文學研究以及法學與文學。他的工作高度跨學科，並且深深扎根於理論之中。Wilson撰寫了一系列作品，探討國家安全機構、有組織犯罪和準軍事組織之間的關係。

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