Rhetorics. Justification and Validity in Law and Literature (C01)

• Subject Area: Principles of Law and Jurisprudence ; German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403589434

In the second funding phase, the subproject focuses on the category of style, which has its foundation in rhetoric, in order to deepen the project's concept of validity historically and systematically. In literary studies, the focus is on the disciplinary establishment of German studies and the paradigm of 'national style' in the 19th century. On the jurisprudential side, the thesis will be defended that the style of national legal systems can generate different modalities of validity of law. The subproject will demonstrate that the style dimension is as fundamental to the identity formation of national legal systems as it is to the disciplinary self-constitution of literary studies.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1385: Law and Literature
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Stefan Arnold; Professorin Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf