ABSTRACT In this article the concept of the tragic legal choice is established as an indispensable complement to our theoretical understanding of adjudication. Tragic legal cases are part of everyday adjudication (albeit of course not necessarily part of the everyday experience of each and every judge). In such cases, adjudication will engender a sense of tragic loss, incommensurability, messiness, which cannot be avoided, overcome, or dismantled by means of legal reasoning as a pre-reflective or extra-legal illusion. In this sense, this article is a harbinger of ‘bad news’ for law and adjudication. Throughout the argument a variety of legal cases will be discussed in an attempt to bring some of this phenomenology to the fore, and also as a means of fostering the reader’s sense of the tragic.

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关于悲剧性的法律选择

摘要在本文中，悲剧性法律选择的概念被确立为我们对裁决的理论理解的必不可少的补充。悲剧性法律案件是日常审判的一部分（尽管不一定是每个法官日常经验的一部分）。在这种情况下，裁决将产生悲剧性的丧失，不可通约性，混乱的感觉，而这种感觉是无法通过法律推理（如反思前或法律外的幻想）来避免，克服或消除的。从这个意义上讲，这篇文章预示着法律和审判的“坏消息”。在整个论证中，将讨论各种法律案件，以期使这种现象学中的一些崭露头角，并以此作为培养读者对悲剧感的一种手段。