Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that don't share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality & moral commitments can't be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. This text draws upon Sophocles' play Antigone in order to consider this difficulty & the virtues that attend its acknowledgment. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Experience of Tragic Judgment
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415639344
ISBN 13: 9780415639347
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world is not to be found, as many would suppose, in an impersonal set of procedures with which all participants could be treated as having rationally agreed. The very idea of such a neutral system is an illusion. Rather, what is needed, Julen Etxabe argues in this book, is a heightened awareness of the difficulty of judgment. The Experience of Tragic Judgment draws upon Sophocles’ play Antigone in order to consider this difficulty and the virtues that attend its acknowledgment. Based on the transformative experience that the audience undergoes in engaging with this play what is proposed is a reconceptualization of judgment: not as it is generally thought to occur in a single isolated moment, like the falling of an axe, but rather as an experience that develops in and through space and time.

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Julen Etxabe is based at The Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research at the University of Helsinki

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