Law and Tenderness in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader
2004; Routledge; Volume: 16; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/lal.2004.16.2.179
ISSN1541-2601
Autores Tópico(s)Law in Society and Culture
ResumoBernhard Schlink’s novel, The Reader, is both rite-of-passage tale and courtroom drama, but also something of a philosophical investigation, specifically into questions concerning the nature of freedom and responsibility, as well as the relation between law and emotion. The author focuses on the last of these. What sense are we to make of the injunction that the law be more feeling? The author considers two alternatives, the first of which amounts to a metaphysical claim, the second which treats the issue as a matter of style or attitude.
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