2020
Cairn
Charlotte Dufour, « L’acte de juger en je(u) : Kafka, Aragon, Derrida », A contrario, ID : 10670/1.7cp3u3
This article proposes a cross-reading between literature and philosophy as a mean to reflect on the act of judging–its conditions, its issues and its consequences–, by taking two works of fiction (Aragon, Le droit romain n’est plus ; Kafka, La colonie pénitentiaire), whose problématiques are studied through the lens of Derrida’s considerations in Force de loi. The aim is less to arrive at a definition of the notion of judgement than to revise a number of conventions, such as the impartiality of judges and certainty in decision, by highlighting interactions between law, violence, body and language.