4 Understanding Fact and Fiction in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I The Enchantment of Knowledge: Fact and Fiction in Law and Literature
6. 1 The Enchantment of Knowledge and its Apotheosis: Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet 9
7. 2 A Raid on the Inarticulate 28
8. 3 Explanation or Understanding: Language and Interdisciplinarity 46
9. 4 Understanding Fact and Fiction in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities 64
10. 5 Poetry that Does not Fade: Gerrit Achterberg’s Experience with Law and Forensic Psychiatry 80
11. Part II Iuris Prudentia or Insightful Knowledge of Law
12. 6 Practical Knowledge: Facts, Norms and Phronèsis 93
13. 7 Metaphor and (Dis)belief 117
14. 8 Narrative Intelligence: Empathy, Mimesis and the Equitable 137
15. 9 Towards a Legal Narratology I: Probability, Fidelity and Plot 159
16. 10 Towards a Legal Narratology II: Implications and Pathologies 181
17. Part III The Perplexity of Judges
18. 11 Empathy Revisited: Who’s in Narrative Control? 205
19. 12 Person and Poiesis in Technology and Law: Questioning Builds a Way 229
20. 13 Control, Alt, Delete? Information Technology and the Human 249
21. Coda 270
22. Bibliography 271
23. Index 295