Literature's Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice

Literature’s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice explores two of the fundamental institutions in human existence and social democracy that attend to philosophical consideration and critical discussion of how literature interacts with the phenomena of justice.

Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from divine right and religious ordainment to metaphysical imperative and natural law, to national jurisdiction, social order, human rights, and civil disobedience. What is just and right has varied in time and place, in war and peace. A sense of justice appears inextricable from human concerns of ethics and morals. Literature includes a vast range of writing from holy texts to banned books. Parts of literature, particularly in the past, have laid down the law. In more recent history, literature has gradually assumed radical roles of critique, subversion, and transformation of the existing law and order, in contents, themes, language, and form. Literature’s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice offers a selection of research that examines how various types of literature and arts give shape and significance to ideas of justice in various fields.

Contributor: Ruben Moi (Edited by), Charles I. Armstrong (Contributions by), William Dwyer III (Contributions by), Cassandra Falke (Contributions by), Lill Tove Fredriksen (Contributions by), Lene M. Johannessen (Contributions by), Anthony W. Johnson (Contributions by), Edvard Lia (Contributions by), Ruben Moi (Contributions by), Erik Mustad (Contributions by), Christopher Loe Olsen (Contributions by), Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad (Contributions by)

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