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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