ABSTRACT Robert Cover’s essay ‘Nomos and Narrative’ (1983) outlines a programme for an ambitious yet incomplete theory of law. While many interpreters focus on how it readdresses nomos, less attention is given to Cover’s notion of narrative. For Cover, narrative is not simply a complement to law that serves to pluralize it, but a key for a different conception of what law is, how it is constituted, and how it relates to sovereignty, morality and social commitment. In the context of the debates during the 1980s between legal positivists and naturalists, particularly around the question of hard cases, Cover’s contribution is that, instead of arguing about the different legal means required to fill what is perceived as a normative void, the narratival approach realizes that law is always socially and semantically contextualized. Hard cases, like crises of tradition or political breaking-points, are cases that uncover the working of narrative within law as a dynamic normative system. This paper argues that Cover’s work goes beyond the positivism-naturalism dilemma, as well as beyond the liberal framework of legal thinking and more broadly, towards a paradigm-shift in legal philosophy that I suggest calling poetical phronesis.

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正义叙事：罗伯特·科夫的道德创造力

摘要罗伯特·盖夫（Robert Cover）的论文“ Nomos and Narrative”（1983年）概述了一个雄心勃勃但不完整的法律理论的计划。尽管许多口译人员专注于它如何重新处理名词，但对Cover的叙事概念的关注却较少。对于Cover而言，叙事不仅是对法律进行多元化的补充，而且是对法律的含义，法律的构成以及与主权，道德和社会承诺的关系的不同概念的关键。在法律实证主义者和自然主义者在1980年代之间的辩论中，特别是在困难案件的问题上，科夫的贡献是，叙述性方法不是争论填补被认为是规范性空白所需的不同法律手段，而是争论意识到法律总是在社会和语义上被上下文化的。困难的情况下，像传统危机或政治突破点一样，这些案例揭示了叙事在法律中作为动态的规范体系的作用。本文认为Cover的工作超越了实证主义-自然主义的困境，也超越了法律思想的自由框架，更广泛地，朝着法律哲学的范式转变，我建议称之为诗意化。