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Milan Kundera and Franz Kafka - How Not to Forget Everydayness

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Škop M.

Creative and Knowledge Society

2011

vol. 1

issue 2

110-119

Purpose of the article is to show that while in fundamental constitutional questions we are still attentive to our past, in everyday legal cases we can forget more likely. In my opinion, in case of the post-communist countries it is very dangerous to forget the Past because we have nothing other than our memories. To forget means either to be exposited the danger of return to the system as it was or to transform our legal praxis into a depersonalized system.Methodology/Methods In this article I want to analyze two decisions of Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and compare them with situation described in early works of Milan Kundera (The Joke; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting). His work reflecting the past everydayness in communist Czechoslovakia can be used as a good example of the analyses of forgetting. Very similar inspirations we can find in work of Franz Kafka (The Trial) or even better in Milan Kundera's interpretation of Kafka's work. The scientific aim of this article is to show that although the literature represents different conception of knowledge when this knowledge is compared with legal knowledge we can gain parallels that describe the law rooted in culture and society.Conclusions of this article show that on one side we face reminding of our Past in decisions regarding politically considerable cases. On the other side we face the oblivion: In cases at constitutional level dealing with everydayness in legal praxis we can find rather shift to formal interpretation without any reference to our past. The result can be Kafkaesque legal system without any signs of living people.

John Mitchell Kemble’s Anglo-Germanic legal historiography

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Stuckey M.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica

2020

vol. 91

51-66

W dziewiętnastym stuleciu doszło do rozwoju i rozprzestrzenienia się różnych koncepcji dotyczących porządków prawnych i ustrojowych Wysp Brytyjskich, które wywodziły się z ducha narodowego, a ostatecznie opierały się na rasowej kompozycji narodu (bądź narodów). John Mitchell Kemble może być zaliczony w poczet twórców literatury prezentującej ten ewolucyjny wzorzec tradycji common law. Działalność Kemble’a była kluczowa dla ustanowienia doktryny historycznej, która leży u podstaw rozwoju common law oraz jego instytucji, ze szczególnym i świadomym uwzględnieniem germańskich oraz pochodnych wpływów. Pozycja Kemble’a była ważna, w trakcie twórczego dyskursu, jako erudycyjnego zwornika, którego działania wykraczały poza współczesną koncepcję ograniczonych dyscyplin naukowych. Rozwinięta i przyjęta germańska konwencja historyczno-prawna konsekwentnie kładła nacisk na narrację dotyczącą wyjątkowości common law. Była to również tradycja, która ostatecznie zyskała fundamentalne znaczenie dla nauki.

Ideas about legal and constitutional systems in the British Isles, based upon a native genius, and ultimately upon the racial composition of the nation(s), were developed and deployed during the nineteenth century. The work of John Mitchell Kemble can be counted here amongst the developers of the literature informing this evolving historiographical norm of the Common Law tradition. Kemble’s work was fundamental to the establishment of a historical theory which underlay the development of the Common Law and its institutions with a specific and conscious Germanic attribution and constructed derivation. Kemble’s role was critical, in this creative discourse, as a polymath aggregator, whose work crossed modern-day conceptions of disciplinary boundaries. The developed and acquired Germanic historico-legal convention consistently emphasised a narrative of the Common Law’s uniqueness, and it was a tradition which eventually gained a fundamental intellectual position.

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Milan Kundera and Franz Kafka - How Not to Forget Everydayness

John Mitchell Kemble’s Anglo-Germanic legal historiography