caa a22 4500 386392358 CHVBK 20180307112123.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1051194 doi S0748081400005312 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1051194 Duncan Tristan Layle Narrative Jurisprudence: The Remystification of the Law [Elektronische Daten] [Tristan Layle Duncan] Over the years, law has been denned variously as a "brooding omnipresence in the sky,” the decree of a sovereign, the mores of human experience, the practical realization of truth and justice, what operates when there is peace and order. From a societal perspective, all of these have a ring of truth. When one does not think in terms of "me” but in terms of "we,” then law as social order makes sense. But the individual does not comprehend the law so abstractly. Law is a world of violence, death, pain, and suffering imposed on those who are loved, hated, respected, feared, scorned, and pitied. For those who are forced to bend to the coercion of the law, law is not so vague a concept as ‘truth', ‘justice', ‘tradition', ‘conventional morality', ‘mores'. Law is pain. It is profound to the extent violence and death are profound. It is abstract to the extent pain is an abstraction. It is neutral as coercion and suffering strike us as neutral. Law, for those who make it and for those who are subject to it, is as objective and impartial an enterprise as law's violence allows. As violence is world destroying, law is deobjectified. It remains impersonal only for those who are removed from it. But for those who live it and are therefore touched by its coercion, the meaning of otherwise abstract impersonal principles is colored by the experience of law's violence. Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1989 Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 105-129 0748-0814 7:1<105 1989 7 JLR https://doi.org/10.2307/1051194 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1051194 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Duncan Tristan Layle NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 105-129 0748-0814 7:1<105 1989 7 JLR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge