The Idea of Justice in Literature

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Introduction

   • Hiroshi Kabashima, Shing-I Liu, Christoph Luetge, Aurelio de Prada Garcíai

   Pages 1-3

3. The Idea of Justice in Drama

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Widerstand im Namen der Gerechtigkeit

      • Shing-I Liu

      Pages 7-14

   3. The Heads of Justice

      • Aurelio de Prada Garcíai

      Pages 15-36

   4. Taming the Anger

      • You-Da Pan

      Pages 37-45

4. The Idea of Justice in Narrative Literature

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Democracy, Law, Judges and Solitude

      • Donald Bello Hutt

      Pages 49-57

   3. The Idea of the Honest Businessman in Literature

      • Christoph Luetge

      Pages 59-65

   4. What Justice? Things as They Are

      • Íñigo Álvarez.Gálvez

      Pages 67-78

   5. From Brave New World to Island:

      • José Manuel Aroso Linhares

      Pages 79-100

   6. Kafka und Schwejk

      • Jan Wintr

      Pages 101-112

5. The Idea of Justice in Poetry and Essays

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Romanticism and Political Violence

      • Hiroshi Kabashima

      Pages 115-130

   3. A Penny for Your Thoughts

      • Nuria López

      Pages 131-145

   4. Justice without Formulas

      • Tomasz Stawecki

      Pages 147-166

6. The Idea of Justice in Graphic Novels

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Rule of Law and State of Exception in Arts

      • Marcelo Maciel Ramos, Bernardo Supranzetti de Moraes

      Pages 169-188

7. The Idea of Justice in Legal Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Der Sinn des Rechtsgedankens

      • Marijan Pavčnik

      Pages 191-204

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 the law (law in literature), and second, to find out a theoretical solution of the methodological question whether and to what extent the legal text can be interpreted objectively in comparison with the question how literary works should be interpreted (law as literature). The subject of justice and injustice has been covered not only in treatises of law and philosophy, but also in many works of literature: On the one hand, poets and writers have been outraged at the social conditions of their time. On the other hand, some of them have also contributed fundamental reflections on the idea of justice itself.

• Wirtschaftsethik
• Unternehmensethik
• Gerechtigkeit
• CSR
• Ethik und Literatur

• School of Law, Tohoku University , Sendai, Japan

  Hiroshi Kabashima

• Center of Criminal Law, National Taipei University , New Taipei City, Taiwan

  Shing-I Liu

• Chair of Business Ethics and Global Governance, Technical University of Munich , München, Germany

  Christoph Luetge

• Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos , Madrid, Spain

  Aurelio de Prada García

Hiroshi Kabashima is professor of jurisprudence in the School of Law at Tohoku University, Japan.
Shing-I Liu is professor in the School of Law at National Taipei University, Taiwan.
Christoph Luetge is professor of business ethics at Technical University of Munich, Germany. 
Aurelio de Prada García is professor of philosophy of law at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain.

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