Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Yale Law Journal
Abstract
This article presents information on the struggle between the law and literature. Greek philosopher Plato's banishment of the poet is one of his most reviled ideas. Yet it is time to revisit his framework, which illuminates many of the contemporary debates about law and literature. Contemporary evictions of literature from law frame literature in negative particularizing terms. The temptation for those who defend literature will always be to respond with an ineradicability defense, which stretches the particularizing definition of literature into a generalizing one. The Platonic paradigm suggests that one should resist this move because it is both wrong and weak.
First Page
1835
Volume
114
Publication Date
2005
Recommended Citation
Kenji Yoshino,
The City and the Poet,
114
Yale Law Journal
1835
(2005).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/1523
