'Empty Justice: One Hundred Years of Law, Literature and Philosophy' by
Melanie Williams is published now by Cavendish Publishing (London, 2002).
This is an interdisciplinary work which considers how moral values and
moral systems act upon the subject throughout the 20th century considering
in particular existential, feminist and normative perspectives in the
examination of literary, legal and other texts. Each chapter is focussed
around particular works of fictions as springboards to the wider debates.
Writers such as J.G. Ballard, J.M. Coetzee, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy,
Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch and John Fowles are considered
alongside topics such as The Social Contract, Anthropology and the Psyche,
the reasonable man, rape, seduction and provocation, treason and
domestic 'fascism', abortion and the 'ethic of care'.
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