Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice

320 Pages·2000·3.32 MB·English

by  Desmond Manderson

Songs without Music
Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law
General Editors
Andrew Arato, Seyla Benhabib, Ferenc Fehér, William Forbath, Agnes
Heller, Arthur Jacobson, and Michel Rosenfeld
1. William Rehg, Insight and Solidarity: A Study in the Discourse Ethics
of Jürgen Habermas
2. Alan Brudner, The Unity of the Common Law: Studies in Hegelian
Jurisprudence
3. Peter Goodrich, Oedipus Lex: Psychoanalysis, History, Law
4. Michel Rosenfeld, Just Interpretations: Law between Ethics and Politics
5. Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder, The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan,
Property and the Feminine
6. Michel Rosenfeld and Andrew Arato, editors, Habermas on Law and
Democracy: Critical Exchanges
7. Desmond Manderson, Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of
Law and Justice
8. Arthur J. Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink, editors, Weimar: A Jurispru-
dence of Crisis
Songs without Music
Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice
desmond manderson
University of California Press
berkeley los angeles london
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 2000 by the Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Manderson, Desmond.
Songs without music : aesthetic dimensions of law and justice /
Desmond Manderson.
p. cm.—(Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ; 7)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn0-520-21688-1 (alk. paper)
1. Law and aesthetics. I. Series.
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To Mum
and in memory of Harry Blackmun

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
part 1. the methodological dimension
Prelude: Senses and Symbols in Aesthetic Experience 3
Fugue: A Prospectus for the Aesthetic Dimension 25
Motet: Statutes and Music—An Aesthetic
Methodology 50
part 2. the epistemological dimension
Requiem: Green Death—Aesthetic Interpretations and
Influences in the Death Penalty 93
Variations on a Theme: Metaphors of the Boundary
and the Boundaries of Metaphor 130
part 3. the normative dimension
Quartet for the End of Time: Legal Theory Against
the Law 157
Quodlibet: Just Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Justice 190
Notes 203
Bibliography 265
Index 299