The poetry of negligence

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作者：

Wolcher L.E. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Department of Law, University of Washington, School of Law, Seattle, WA 98105

[2] School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle

来源：

Liverpool Law Review | 2001年 / 23卷 / 2期

关键词：

Art; Beauty; Law; Legal rhetoric; Logos; Negligence; Poetry; Suffering; Truth;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1016090019088

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摘要：

Poetry and legal rhetoric are both forms of what the ancient Greeks called poiēsis: the art of the word. Tradition nonetheless assigns poetry to the realm of art and beauty, and legal rhetoric to the different realm of law and truth. The late William Matthews' poem "Negligence" transgresses the boundaries that we have erected between art and law, and beauty and truth. The poem presents a well-crafted piece of legal rhetoric in the form of art. This essay draws out the implications of Matthews' transgression, and suggests that in the end poetry and law have a lot in common: both are forms of manipulation by means of words. The essay develops this connection in order to join with Emmanuel Levinas in calling for a "breakup in the omnipotence of the logos." © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

引用

页码：187 / 197

页数：10

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