The Judicial Imagination Writing After Nuremberg

Stonebridge eloquently addresses a dilemma at the heart of the judicial imagination--the tension between law and poetic justice, traumatic history that resists comprehension and the ethical testimony of literature. -- Mary Jacobus, Professor of English, University of Cambridge Analyzing disciplinary and stylistic practices among such thinkers as Arendt, West, Spark, and Gellhorn, The Judicial Imagination fully matches the rigor, moral authority, and observational acumen of its subjects. This is an important and unusually enriching study. -- Michael Steinberg, Keeney Professor of History and Director, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University Stonebridge eloquently addresses a dilemma at the heart of the judicial imagination--the tension between law and poetic justice, traumatic history that resists comprehension and the ethical testimony of literature. Analyzing disciplinary and stylistic practices among such thinkers as Arendt, West, Spark, and Gellhorn, The Judicial Imagination fully matches the rigor, moral authority, and observational acumen of its subjects. This is an important and unusually enriching study.