New publication: Recht Fühlen

Can we feel law? And, normatively speaking, is there a correct way to do so? For more than 200 years now, the function of emotion in the law has been the subject of academic, political and artistic arguments. The concept of Rechtsgefühl in the narrower sense develops in the 18^th century. Since then, it is made use of in order to investigate our relation towards normative orders, the ideas of responsibility and participation and, not least, the rightness of judgments. The volume deals with these efforts of systematization and links them to the current debate on law and emotion. The contributions, which stem from the fields of law, literature, history and cultural studies, analyze the conceptual and functional dimensions of feeling law: as a part of jurisprudence, as a form of political and aesthetic judgment and as a mode of constituting subject and society. They reflect on persistent problems and patterns of justification that encompass these historical and contemporary debates in a striking manner.