Editors’ Introduction: Fictions in Law, Literature, and Philosophy

Zander L, Celik N, Luft C (2024)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Law and Literature University of California Press

DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2024.2354019

Abstract

While several collections have been published recently from the perspective of common law focused specifically on jurisprudence and from the perspective of both literary theory and the philosophy of language, a more integrative approach that sharpens the underlying fundamental concept(s) by bringing together insights from legal theory/history, doctrinal legal scholarship, literary studies, and analytic philosophy has been missing so far. Not only has an examination of a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective been rare in research on fictions and fictionality, but also a decidedly integrative view of European and Anglo-American research approaches has been the exception. This special issue both addresses and seeks to bridge this research gap. In shedding light on the family resemblances and differences of “fiction(s)” in each of the aforementioned disciplines, we hope to identify blind spots and offer some fresh ideas with regard to a transdisciplinary theory of fiction(s) which considers their conceptual, functional, as well as historical characteristics. A particularly significant aspect of this project is that it fuses contributions from an anglophone law and literature perspective with contributions from European continental contexts, offering perspectives from related but also distinct legal and literary traditions.

Authors with CRIS profile

Nursan Celik Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literatur mit systematischem Schwerpunkt

Involved external institutions

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster DE Germany (DE) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Zander, L., Celik, N., & Luft, C. (2024). Editors’ Introduction: Fictions in Law, Literature, and Philosophy. Law and Literature. https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2024.2354019

MLA:

Zander, Laura, Nursan Celik, and Constantin Luft. "Editors’ Introduction: Fictions in Law, Literature, and Philosophy." Law and Literature (2024).

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