The Judicial Imagination by Lyndsey Stonebridge

The Judicial Imagination by Lyndsey Stonebridge

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Tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg.

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The Judicial Imagination by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Focussing on the work of Hannah Arendt, the author traces the emergence of a critical aesthetics of judgment in a group of writers - often hard to place in the 'between' of modernism and contemporary writing - including Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch and Martha Gellhorn.
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books are Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees (2018) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Other titles include: The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (1998) and The Writing of Anxiety (2007). She is currently working on a collaborative project, Refugee Hosts, and finishing a short book, Rights and Writing: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is co-editor of Oxford University Press’s Mid-Century Series, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. She is a regular media commentator, and tweets about literature, history, and human rights @lyndseystonebri
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ISBN 13 9780748691258
ISBN 10 0748691251
Title The Judicial Imagination
Author Lyndsey Stonebridge
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Year published 2015-05-30
Number of pages 178
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