Towards an Aesthetics of Law

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2008

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Clarkson, Carrol
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Safundi: Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies

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University of Cape Town

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Department of English Language and Literature
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Faculty of Humanities
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In this seminal discussion of the relationship between law and literature, between the philosophers and the poets, Socrates and his interlocutors decide to banish the artists from their own intricately worked-out—if ironically imagined—just state. The main trouble is that ‘‘all the poets from Homer downwards have no grasp of truth but merely produce a superficial likeness of any subject they treat;’’ to the extent that ‘‘the artist knows little or nothing about the subjects he represents and that the art of representation is something that has no serious value.’’
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Clarkson, C. (2008). Towards an Aesthetics of Law. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 9(4), 457-467.

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