Abstract

“As observed by Hart in the opening lines of The Concept of Law, «few questions concerning human society have been asked with such persistence and answered by serious thinkers in so many diverse, strange, and even paradoxical ways as the question 'What is law?'». The question What is Law? has a profoundly different meaning for a jurist than the question What is Chemistry? for a chemist. The reason is that law would not be possible, it would not even exist, without the question What is Law?. Law, in other words, exists only through the question through which it interpellates itself. Law does not institute itself, it does not exist, outside the question on what it is, on what makes it what it is. A similar claim can be made for literature. Literature is nothing but the question What is Literature? – at least since, as observed by Maurice Blanchot, Mallarmé wondered Quelque chose comme les Lettres existe-t-il?: «this question is literature itself» when literature has become a concern for its own essence . It is this reflexive movement – such that law and literature do not get to institute themselves without the question on themselves – that must be examined, to indicate the point where their separation, their distance, remains radical”.

摘要

“正如哈特在《法律的概念》的开篇中所观察到的那样，“很少有关于人类社会的问题像‘什么是法律， ?'»。问题是什么是法律？对于法学家来说，与“什么是化学”这个问题有着截然不同的意义。对于化学家。原因是如果没有什么是法律的问题，法律就不可能存在，甚至不存在。换句话说，法律仅通过它对自身进行质询的问题而存在。法律不建立自身，它不存在，在关于它是什么、是什么使它成为什么的问题之外。可以对文学提出类似的主张。文学不过是什么是文学的问题？– 至少从那时起，Quelque 选择了 comme les Lettresexiste-t-il？：当文学已经成为对自身本质的关注时，“这个问题就是文学本身”。正是这种反思性的运动——以至于法律和文学无法在没有问题的情况下自行建立——必须被审查，以表明它们的分离、它们的距离仍然是激进的”。