Good and Evil in Art and Law

An Extended Essay
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-7046-5895-1
Verlag: Verlag Österreich GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

This interdisciplinary book looks at art and especially literature in juxtaposition with law and speculates how the two disciplines approach, in their separate but inter-related ways, the notions of good and evil. Full of detail, it examines how the two disciplines deal with these notions, why the evil-doer is often aggrandized in literature but is debased in real life and how good and evil change with time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Markesinis, Basil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents
Setting the Scene.- Six Figures: Real and Imaginary.- The Appeal of the Characters.- Just Deserts?.- Some Technical Reasons for the Differences.- The "Flawless Hero.- Controlling People s Thoughts.- Joining up the dots.- Works referred to this book.- Index of names.- A few words about the author.

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Basil Markesinis is an honorary QC and holds doctorates or honorary doctorates from (in alphabetical order) Athens, Cambridge, Ghent, Munich, Oxford, and Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). After holding successively the Chairs of European Law and then Compa