Infondatezza normativa e ineluttabilità del giudizio: ritratti fenomenologici dei paradossi della giustizia

This paper discusses the aporias of judgment by analyzing Alessio Lo Giudice’s recent book “The Tragedy of Judgment”. These aporias consist in the fact that the judge is a human being judging another - which means he is never perfectly impartial -, in the lack of a universal notion of justice, and in the leap over the uncertainties of imputed events. Lo Giudice employs Hannah Arendt’s appropriation of the Kantian reflective judgment to grasp the features of juridical judgment. This contribution further delves into the aporia of the personality of judgment by analyzing its contraries: “nobody can judge” with Arendt and “nobody’s judgment” with Kafka. Thereby the enormous risks of impersonal judgment will be exposed.