Subsystem or public sphere? --;In search of the invisible precedent : Grimm writes to Savigny --;Kant, codification, and Goethe's elective affinities --;A recursive process : Kafka's law --;and ours --;Walter Benjamin reads the Weimar Constitution --;From Schiller to Schund : Zensur and the canonization of literature --;German literature fights for its rights : a thick description of an incident of Weimar literary culture --;Carl Schmitt and/as Benito Cereno --;Citation as second-order observation : Peter Weiss's The investigation.
Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars. This book traces a history of the sometimes fraught relationship between German law and literature in the modern period, from Grimm to Schmitt.
German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.