This research argues that the law, which we consider to be the principal element or the most predominant manifestation of the right, is permeated by a literary dimension that composes it. This literary dimension can prevent the law from being reduced to a simple form of language that, as a tool of subjugation, only seeks to control the relationship of consciousness to the world. The literary dimension enables a liberatory dimension to the right. For Blanchot, literature is a form of language that questions its own meaning, a language that experiences the questioning of itself. Thinking of the law as literature opens it to the experience of questioning the meaning that determines the law. This openness to the liberatory dimension of the law allows the law to differentiate itself from itself, to confront its impossibility and to be always open to the irruption of the unknown, the unforeseeable, the absolute other. In this way, the self-questioning that constitutes the literary experience also means opening up the law to an ethical dimension that places it in relation to that other with whom it has nothing in common: the stranger, the sick person, the mad person. Thinking of the law as literature also makes it possible to think of community experience not in terms of identity, but in terms of difference, by preserving the absence for the arriving of an unknown other, a stranger from outside. Thinking of the law as literature opens the law to a liberating dimension and to crucial ethical questioning about its own meaning and justification.
