The Gothic Picturesque Garden and the Historical Sense
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Daniela Carpi
Daniela Carpi is Full Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Verona. Her fields of research are: Renaissance theatre, critical theory, postmodernism, law and literature, literature and science, literature and visual arts. She is in the scientific board of the journalsSymbolism: a Journal of Critical Aesthetics (New York),Anglistik (Heidelberg),La torre di Babele (Parma),Law and Humanities (Warwick),Cardozo Law Bulletin (University of Trento). She has founded the Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura (AIDEL), which she presides. Among her most recent publications:The Concept of Equity: an Interdisciplinary Assessment (Heidelberg: Winter, 2007);Practising Equity, Addressing Law (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008);Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011);Medicina e bioetica nella letteratura inglese contemporanea (Verona: Cierre Grafica, 2012); [with Jeanne Gaakeer]Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013).
Abstract
The ruins that appear in Piranesi's engravings can be seen as the metaphor for a social system which has disappeared but remains visible in its ruins. On these ruins a new system is erected which must take into account past tradition. You never build in a vacuum, even in law, but everything evolves. It is also Burke's idea in Reflections on the Revolution in France, where he criticizes the fact that the French have done away with their past instead of constructing and bringing about reforms from within a well assessed system. The ruins may epitomize the Roman juridical system upon which all subsequent juridical systems have been rooted. The Justinian code has been the basis for all systems, also for the Anglo-Saxon one, even if in the course of time the latter has distanced itself from the Roman system. This symbolic passage from times past to modern times is metaphorized by the Gothic picturesque garden, which plays with a taste for ruins, with the sublime sense of delight, so as to bring about a re-empowerment of a new juridical system.
About the author
Daniela Carpi is Full Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Verona. Her fields of research are: Renaissance theatre, critical theory, postmodernism, law and literature, literature and science, literature and visual arts. She is in the scientific board of the journals Symbolism: a Journal of Critical Aesthetics (New York), Anglistik (Heidelberg), La torre di Babele (Parma), Law and Humanities (Warwick), Cardozo Law Bulletin (University of Trento). She has founded the Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura (AIDEL), which she presides. Among her most recent publications: The Concept of Equity: an Interdisciplinary Assessment (Heidelberg: Winter, 2007); Practising Equity, Addressing Law (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008); Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2011); Medicina e bioetica nella letteratura inglese contemporanea (Verona: Cierre Grafica, 2012); [with Jeanne Gaakeer] Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013).
©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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- Masthead
- Focus: Genealogies of Laws and Justices
- Modifying the Past: Nietzschean Approaches to History
- Weeds in the Gardens of Justice? The Survival of Hyperpositivism in Polish Legal Culture as a Symptom/Sinthome
- Metamorphosis of the Ideals and the Actuals: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan and the Transplantation of Justice in British India
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- Sovereignty, Faith and the Fall
- Sovereignty Forever: The Boundaries of Western Medieval and Modern Thought in a Quasi-Symptomatic Reading of Schmitt's Definition of Sovereignty
- Gollum's Sacredness and the Geopolitics of the Self: Reframing Tolkien's Normative World
- Culture, Language and Environmental Rights: The Anthropocentrism of English
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