Abstract The critique of law and judicial practice is a central theme in Karl Kraus’s oeuvre. However, it is mostly understood by scholars as – to use Robert Cover’s terms – addressing law as nomos (what law says) rather than as narrative (its normative grounding). This article claims that the narratival critique of law, which Kraus develops via Shakespeare, Goethe, and other literary sources, should not be seen as a merely aesthetic complement to his legal arguments, but rather as essential to his approach to jurisprudence and social justice. This view challenges a non-critical application of pre-given values and fixated norms, since such practice undermines contingent moral concerns and often leads to social harm. From this perspective, this analysis shows how Kraus captures and documents the historical political transition of the Habsburg Monarchy, in which criminalization was put to use as a political tool, as a liberal institution co-opted by national discourse and populist ideology.

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自由主义诺莫斯，民族叙事：卡尔克劳斯的法律批判

摘要 对法律和司法实践的批判是卡尔·克劳斯作品的中心主题。然而，学者们大多将其理解为——使用罗伯特·科弗的术语——将法律作为 nomos（法律所说的内容）而不是作为叙述（其规范基础）来处理。这篇文章声称，克劳斯通过莎士比亚、歌德和其他文学资源发展起来的法律叙事批判不应仅仅被视为对他的法律论点的审美补充，而应该被视为他的法理学和社会正义方法的必要条件。这种观点对预先给定的价值观和固定规范的非批判性应用提出了挑战，因为这种做法破坏了偶然的道德问题并经常导致社会危害。从这个角度来说，