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    This book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is historically rooted firmly in ancient Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and law – genres that also secured its transmission. Their pragmatic approach results in a conceptualization of politics, social organization, philosophy, and law that is derived from the concrete. It is commonly supposed that, with the shift from pre-modern to modern ways of thinking – as modern knowledge came to privilege abstraction over exempla, the general over the particular – exemplarity lost its way. This book reveals the limits of this understanding. Tracing the role of exemplarity from Rome through to its influence on the fields of literature, politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis and law, it shows how Roman exemplarity has subsisted, not only as a figure of thought, but also as an alternative way to organize and to transmit knowledge.

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    This book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is historically rooted firmly in ancient Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and law – genres that also secured its transmission. Their pragmatic approach results in a conceptualization of politics, social organization, philosophy, and law that is derived from the concrete. It is commonly supposed that, with the shift from pre-modern to modern ways of thinking – as modern knowledge came to privilege abstraction over exempla, the general over the particular – exemplarity lost its way. This book reveals the limits of this understanding. Tracing the role of exemplarity from Rome through to its influence on the fields of literature, politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis and law, it shows how Roman exemplarity has subsisted, not only as a figure of thought, but also as an alternative way to organize and to transmit knowledge.

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    Exemplarity and

    Singularity
    Thinking through Particulars in
    Philosophy, Literature, and Law

    Edited by
    Michle Lowrie and Susanne Ldemann

    Contents
    Acknowledgements
    List of contributors
    Preface

    ix
    xi
    xii

    1 Introduction
    Michle Lowrie and Susanne Ldemann

    Part I. The Practice of Theory: A Historical Reminder


    2 Instance, example, case, and the relationship of the legal case to the
    law
    Hans Lipps, translated by Erica Weitzman
    3 For example
    Bernhard Waldenfels
    4 Equivalence unbalanced metaphor, case, and example from
    Aristotle to Derrida
    Anselm Haverkamp
    5 Without example: Adorno
    Eva Geulen, translated by Erica Weitzman

    16
    36

    46
    58

    Part II. The Roman Practice of Exemplarity


    6 Roman exemplarity: mediating between general and particular

    68

    Rebecca Langlands
    7 Between unique and typical: Senecan exempla in a list
    Matthew Roller
    8 Exemplum and Exceptio : building blocks for a rhetorical theory
    of the exceptional case
    Melanie Mller, translated by Jake Fraser
    9 Exemplum , analogy, and precedent in Roman Law
    Clifford Ando
    10 Machiavellis Agathocles: from criminal example
    to princely exemplum
    John P. McCormick

    81

    96
    111

    123

    Part III. Exemplarity / Singularity


    11 The exampleless example: of the infinite particulars of early
    modern common law
    Peter Goodrich

    140

    12 Bacons bee: the physiognomy of the singular


    Christiane Frey

    151

    13 The temper of exemplarity: Werthers horse


    David Martyn

    166

    14 Stendhal: Julien Sorel in the footsteps of Napoleon


    Robert Morrissey

    181

    15 Beside oneself: parapraxis as a paradigm of everyday life (Freud)


    Paul Fleming

    192

    Index

    203

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