Practices of Restitution
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- Publication date:
- 19 December 2025
- 22 January 2026
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- 9781009514880
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- (229 x 152 mm)
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- Law: General Interest, European Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Jurisprudence
- Series:
- Law in Context
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Book description
Since the end of the Second World War, restitution in Germany – Wiedergutmachung – has been mainly understood as part of state or private law. This book offers a different approach, arguing that authors and artists have also taken up a responsibility for restitution. Deploying the literal translation 'making-good-again', this book focuses on the 'making' of law, literature and visual art to argue that restitution is a practice which is found in different genres, sites and temporalities. The practices of restitution identified are dynamic, iterative and incomplete: they are practices of failure. Nevertheless, in this book, the question of how to conduct restitution emerges as a material question of responsibility asked through the making of texts and objects in different genres, including law. The resulting text is a unique expansion and re-conceptualisation of the practices of jurisprudence, restitution and responsibility in the context of the aftermath in Germany. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Practices of Restitution
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Law in Context - Series page
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Practices of Restitution - Title page
pp vii-vii - Law and Aesthetics in Modern Germany
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Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1 - Practices of Restitution in the Aftermath
pp 1-30 - An Introduction
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Chapter 2 - Glossing Restitution
pp 31-70 - Walter Schwarz and Re-forming the Practice of Law
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Chapter 5 - Memorial Restitution
pp 169-218 - A Walking Tour of Berlin’s Memorial Landscape
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Chapter 6 - Making-Good-Again? A Conclusion
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Bibliography
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