This book tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg. Returning to the work of Hannah Arendt as a theoretical starting point, the author traces an aesthetics of judgement in post-war writers and intellectuals, including Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch. Writing in the false dawn of a new era of international justice and human rights, these complicated women intellectuals were drawn to the law because of its promise of justice, yet critical of its political blindness and suspicious of its moral claims. Bringing together literary-l ... More
Keywords: Nuremburg, Hannah Arendt, aesthetics of judgement, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch, international justice, human rights, scepticism
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748642359 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642359.001.0001 |
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