Abstract

[Literature as law. A literary-institutionalist approach from the “middle”]. The link between law and literature can be addressed from different perspectives. In this paper, I analyze the link from a specific point of view, attempting to argue how the two forms of knowledge behave similarly with respect to their foundation. Law and literature, albeit differently from each other, proceed as if they were true or grounded. This “as if” is crucial. The paper reflects on the fact that it constitutes the non-avoidable outcome of an interrogation on the foundation carried out by the “middle” and analyses what consequences this “middle” produces in a philosophical-literary-legal-anthropological sense and leads in the direction of a “literary” institution of law.