The juridical voice of literature: a perspective on literature's entanglement with normativity

dc.contributor.authorBecker, Katrin
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T11:25:42Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T12:55:27Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T11:25:42Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractBased on the logic of the Lacanian mirror paradigm, Pierre Legendre claims that every culture needs to create a metaphysical entity of Reference, for the sake of the legitimacy and validity of its normative system. This entity disguises the abyss at the core of culture and legitimates it by staging itself as its origin. As such, the Reference not only authenticates individual and cultural subjectivity, but also becomes the foundation of law. Given that Legendre attributes a fundamental role to aesthetics in the creation of this entity, my essay will identify the role of literature in this respect, arguing that, on the one hand, literary texts help confirming the readers attachment to a specific order of Reference, i.e. of normativity and imagery. On the other hand, my essay claims that literature also has the capacity to reflect on the basis of cultural normativity and to unveil the contingency of normative truths. This results from what I call the cultural structures of testimony. Thus literature unleashes emancipatory forces with regard to a culture s normative system. The essay tests this hypothesis by analysing E.T.A. Hoffmann s The Sandman, a narrative that because of its play with the categories of fiction and reality is particularly salient.en
dc.identifier.issn2366-4142
dc.identifier.urihttp://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-129996
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/7630
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-7064
dc.language.isodede_DE
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectaesthetic basis of culturede_DE
dc.subjectHoffmannde_DE
dc.subjectLegendrede_DE
dc.subjectnormativityde_DE
dc.subjecttestimonyde_DE
dc.subject.ddcddc:800de_DE
dc.titleThe juridical voice of literature: a perspective on literature's entanglement with normativityen
dc.typearticlede_DE
dcterms.isPartOf2856008-5de_DE
local.affiliationGCSC International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.opus.fachgebietGießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaftende_DE
local.opus.id12999
local.opus.instituteInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.source.journaltitleOn_culture: the open journal for the study of culture
local.source.volume3

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