Meaning, Narrativity, And The Real: The Semiotics Of Law In Legal Education Iv
by Jan M. Broekman /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book examines the concept of meaning and our general
understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context.
Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic
and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent
philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’,
Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of
silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates
about 20
This book examines the concept of meaning and our general
understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context.
Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic
and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent
philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’,
Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of
silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates
about 20th
th century psychologism gave
the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the
importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as
‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact
that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus
interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle
story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of
legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on
the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students
training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and
language.
century psychologism gave
the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the
importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as
‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact
that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus
interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle
story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of
legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on
the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students
training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and
language.Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of
reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines
texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning
concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern
brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm
their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes
that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of
the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and
that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a
fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as
the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our
narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for
meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human
narrativity.
Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of
reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines
texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning
concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern
brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm
their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes
that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of
the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and
that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a
fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as
the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our
narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for
meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human
narrativity.