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The eyes of justice : blindfolds and farsightedness, vision and blindness in the aesthetics of the law

"Should Justice be blind or should she instead be capable of seeing everything, even the human heart? José M. González García examines how the iconography of Justice evolved over the course of history. Providing an overview of depictions of Justice in various ages and places, the book mainly...

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Autor principal: González García, José María (Autor, VerfasserIn)
Autor corporatiu: Vittorio Klostermann (Verlag)
Format: Llibre
Idioma:English
Spanish
Publicat: Frankfurt am Main : Vittorio Klostermann , 2017
Edició:1. Auflage
Col·lecció:Series of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" Volume 13
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Accés en línia:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notes de l'autor:José M. González García
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction
  • Hymn to the gaze of justice that sees all
  • The blindfold dispute
  • Other traditions of the gaze of justice : extraordinary eyes, transparent blindfolds, the double face of Janus, Astraea's returns and the eye of the law
  • Images of justice and the law in the works of Albrecht Dürer
  • Crisis of the liberal model of justice in turn-of-the-century Vienna
  • Justice or fortune?