English
This article proposes a cross-reading between literature and philosophy as a means to reflect on the act of judging—its conditions, its issues, and its consequences—by studying two works of fiction (Aragon, Le droit romain n’est plus; Kafka, In the Penal Colony), whose problématiques are studied through the lens of Derrida’s considerations in Force of Law. The aim is less to arrive at a definition of the notion of judgment than to revise a number of conventions, such as the impartiality of judges and certainty in decision-making, by highlighting the interactions between law, violence, the body, and language.
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