On Trial

From Adam & Eve to O. J. Simpson

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Av George Anastaplo

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On Trial is an exegesis on legal reason, moral judgment, political life, and the events that give them meaning. Beginning with the serpent in the Garden of Eden and ending with O. J. Simpson, esteemed thinker George Anastaplo offers students, scholars, and informed readers an exploration of justice and the rule of law through well-known trials ancient and modern, real and fictional. Anastaplo starts with an interrogation of the good common sense on which most of us draw to make successful judgments. He examines the nurturing of this faculty against rationality, moral obligation, and the contingencies of history and culture. Using classic literary sources as well as real trial histories, On Trial puts legal and moral reason squarely beneath the critical lens.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-06-07
Mått166 x 226 x 39 mm
Vikt744 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor520
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739107805

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Chapter 1 From Adam & Eve to FaustusChapter 2 Clytemnestra, Electra, and OrestesChapter 3 Jonah and the NinevitesChapter 4 Oedipus, Creon, and AntigoneChapter 5 Abraham and KierkegaardChapter 6 Socrates of AthensChapter 7 Jesus of NazarethChapter 8 Joan of ArcChapter 9 Shylock and ShakespeareChapter 10 Thomsa More, the King, and the PopeChapter 11 John P. Altegeld and the HaymarketersChapter 12 Notorious Defendants in Our TimeChapter 13 From Spiro T. Agnew to O. J. Simpson

In this volume, as in many others that he has written, George Anastaplo does what readers familiar with him take for granted, knowing how often he has done it and forgetting what a rare thing it is. Who else would discuss the trials of great figures in literature an history—as if they were, or had been, equally real, and subject them to a critical examination which assumes that the issues raised by them had not only been out common business as human beings to confront from the beginning, but still are? That is what Mr. Anastaplo does here, with a seriousness that challenges the intellect and imagination we all possess, and will not allow us to claim either the poet's license or the vanished past as reasons to escpe the task of unerstanding, the risk of judgment's call.