CRC 1385 - C01: Rhetoric. Law and Reasoning in Law and Literature

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Duration at the University of Münster: 01/07/2019 - 30/06/2024 | 1st Funding period

Description

For centuries, rhetoric was the central educational institution in Western cultural history. It served students of both law and literature likewise and crucially formed patterns of thought in both these disciplines, as this project intends to show. Rhetoric reflects on language as practice and institution. The project will examine the disciplinary discourses of legal and literary studies from a critical rhetorical perspective. The project postulates, among other things, that rhetoric does not imperil the rationality of the law but in fact provides the foundational basis for it.

Keywords: Principles of Law and Jurisprudence; Modern German Literature; law and literature; philosophy of law

Website of the project: https://www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1385/projektbereichc/teilprojektc01

DFG-Gepris-ID: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/425253759

Funding identifier: SFB 1385/1, C01 | DFG project number: 403589434

Funder / funding scheme:

DFG - Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)

Project management at the University of Münster

Arnold, Stefan	Professorship of civil law, philosophy of law and private international law (Prof. Arnold) Professor of Private Law, Philosophy of Law, and Private International Law
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina	Professur für Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte (Prof. Wagner-Egelhaaf)

Applicants from the University of Münster

Arnold, Stefan	Professorship of civil law, philosophy of law and private international law (Prof. Arnold) Professor of Private Law, Philosophy of Law, and Private International Law
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina	Professur für Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte (Prof. Wagner-Egelhaaf)

Research associates from the University of Münster

Heger, Gesine Katharina	Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)
Schnetter, Marcus	Professur für Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte (Prof. Wagner-Egelhaaf)

Related main project

CRC 1385: Law and Literature

Duration: 01/07/2019 - 30/06/2024 | 1st Funding period

Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre

Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster

Publications of the University of Münster resulting from the project

Einleitung Gutmann, Thomas; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (2025) In: Gutmann, Thomas; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina. (eds.), Normativität in Recht und Literatur, 1-38. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-70841-5 Research article (book contribution) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Normativität und Geltung in Recht und Literatur Arnold, Stefan; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (2025) In: Gutmann, Thomas ; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (eds.), Normativität in Recht und Literatur, 171-188. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler Verlag. doi:10.1007/9783662708415 Research article (book contribution) \| Peer reviewed \| Published