The Myth of the Law through the Mirror of Humanities: Perspectives on Law, Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Aesthetics

Abstract

In this Introduction, we present some of the themes currently at the core of law and literature and law and humanities scholarship in Italy. In doing so, we aim at relaunching a peculiar style in Italian law and literature scholarship, by giving value, peculiarly, to its rhetorical and humanistic roots, and especially to what can be traced back to the tradition of Italian thought, across various generations of scholars under the common purpose of depicting forms and modes of the relationship between the dishomogeneous codes of individuality and universality, across diverse methodologies, namely the literary and narrative forms, aesthetics and myth, and the intimate and collective dimensions at the core of psychoanalysis.

Keywords:

• Law
• Literature
• Psychoanalysis
• Narrative
• Aesthetics
• Myth
• Subjectivity

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Notes on contributors

Angela Condello

Angela Condello is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Messina and Adjunct Professor at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on legal theory and method, law and humanities, law and gender.

Paolo Heritier

Paolo Heritier is full professor of philosophy of law at the University of Eastern Piedmont and co-director of the journal Theory and critics of social regulation. His publications range from epistemology to legal aesthetics, legal disability studies, humanist rhetorical methodology and the communicative use of new technologies.