Editors:
- Offers a unique, trans-disciplinary treatment of a topic that has not previously been discussed
- Brings together scholars from the fields of law, political science, history, art history and philosophy
- Deals with the construction of national identities, focusing on the central role of aesthetics
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 13)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Revolution, Constitution, Republic
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Front Matter
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The Aesthetic Constitution of Office
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Front Matter
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Untimely Reflections on the Nation’s Law
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Front Matter
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Consensus
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy
- Constitutional History
- Courbet and the Artist as Legal Advisor
- Decisive Constitutional Moment’
- French National Symbols
- In God We Trust
- Juridico-political Perspective
- Justice in the Italian Court of Cassation
- Kant’s Aesthetics to Lyotard’s Enthusiasm
- Legal Advisor
- The Iconography of Justice
Editors and Affiliations
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Ghent Legal History Institute, Ghent University , Gent, Belgium
Stefan Huygebaert
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Department of Law, University of Roma Tre Department of Law, 00154 Roma RM, Italy
Angela Condello
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Political Science Department, University of Hawai'i Hilo, Hilo, USA
Sarah Marusek
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Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Mark Antaki
About the editors
Angela Condello, PhD (2013, Roma Tre) is Temporary Lecturer at the University of Roma Tre and Adjunct Professor (Jean Monnet Module “Cultures of Normativity” 2017-2010) at the University of Torino, where she also directs LabOnt Law. She cooperates with the Human Rights Committee of the Italian Senate of the Republic. In 2015 she was Fernand Braudel Fellow (EHESS, CENJ) and in 2014 she was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Law as Culture”. Until 2016 shewas Guest Professor at the Law School of the University of Ghent. She teaches Law and Humanities at Roma Tre. She organizes the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law (New York 2017; Torino 2019) and is in the boards of Law Text Culture, Law & Literature, Rivista di Estetica. She is Associate Editor of Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law and directs a book series on French Philosophy and Law (Westminster University Press). In 2016 she received a Jean Monnet award. Her book Analogica. Il doppio legame tra diritto e analogia in forthcoming with Quodlibet (early 2018).
Stefan Huygebaert is a Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) PhD Fellow at the Ghent Legal History Institute and Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies (Ghent University). His dissertation, entitled Visual Ideals of Law and Justice is an iconological study of legal imagery in nineteenth-century Belgium. In 2014-2015, and again in 2016-2017, Stefan was a PhDfellow (Stipendiat) within the Minerva Research Group The Nomos of Images: Manifestation and Iconology of Law at the Kunsthistorisches Insitut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut). He publishes and teaches on legal iconography and nineteenth-century art, and recently co-edited the catalogue for the exhibition The Art of Law: Three Centuries of Justice Depicted (Groeningemuseum, Bruges).
Sarah Marusek, Ph.D (University of Massachusetts Amherst 2008), is an Associate Professor of Public Law in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Her research interests focus on sites of constitutive law, legal geography, and legal semiotics that engage legal pluralist frameworks of everyday jurisprudence. She teaches courses in U.S. Constitutional law, legal studies, and legal geography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sensing the Nation's Law
Book Subtitle: Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy
Editors: Stefan Huygebaert, Angela Condello, Sarah Marusek, Mark Antaki
Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75497-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75495-6Published: 04 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09246-7Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75497-0Published: 22 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2198-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 284
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fundamentals of Law, Philosophy of Law, Arts