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> Original Sender: John Williams <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: 'Empty Justice: One Hundred Years of Law, > Literature and Philosophy' - new publication > To: [log in to unmask] > > 'Empty Justice: One Hundred Years of Law, Literature and Philosophy' > by MELANIE WILLIAMS - Cavendish Publishing (2002) London, is now > published. > This is an interdisciplinary work which considers how moral values and > moral systems act upon the subject throughout the 20th century, when > religious values are called into question, when 'existential' doubt > prevails. The text considers in particular existential, feminist and > normative perspectives in the examination of literary, legal and other > texts throughout the 20th century. Each chapter is focussed around > particular works of fiction as springboards to the wider debates as > follows: > Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The Year 2000 - The Empty City - J.G. > Ballard's 'Super-Cannes' and J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace': Pornography and > the > reasonable man. CHAPTER TWO: The 1890's - The Empty Wood - 'Tess of the > d'Urbervilles, Rape, Seduction and Provocation: Effacement of identity at > the fin de siecle. CHAPTER THREE: Early 20th Century - The Empty Room - > Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and The Viscountess Rhondda's Claim. CHAPTER > FOUR: The 1940's - The Empty War - Graham Greene's 'The Ministry of Fear' > and Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Heat of the Day', Treason and domestic fascism. > CHAPTER FIVE: The 1960's - The Empty Shell - John Fowles's 'The French > Lieutenant's Woman'and Iris Murdoch's 'Bruno's Dream', Abortion and the > Ethic of Care. CHAPTER SIX: The 1980's - The Empty Island - 'Foe' by J.M. > Coetzee, The Social Contract, theory and exclusion. CHAPTER SEVEN: > Inconclusion - Human Nature, Nurture, Psyche, Anthropology. CHAPTER > EIGHT: > Conclusion - Negotiating Emptiness - The Existential and the Normative. > > Reposted by Dr. Clive Hill, > Royal Holloway, University of London.