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The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse: The Juridical Production and the Disclosure of Suffering book cover

1st Edition

The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse The Juridical Production and the Disclosure of Suffering

By William E. Conklin Copyright 1998
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1998, The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse recovers the suffering which is concealed as lawyers, judges and other legal officials resignify a harm through the special vocabulary and grammar which constitutes legal language. At the moment of re-signification, an untranslatable gap erupts between the knowers’ special language and the embodied meanings of the... Read more

Preface.  Introduction: The Problematic of Modern Legal Discourse  1. The Paradigms of Legal Consciousness and Legal Language  2. The Transformation of Meaning into a Modern Legal Genre  3. The Silence of Suffering  4. Does the Knower Face External Constraints?  5. The Retrieval of the Knower’s Evolving World  6. The Idealism of a Modern Legal Discourse  7. Consciousness of the Absent Final Object  8. The Retrieval of the Dialogic Relation.  Conclusion: Living Laws.  Bibliography.  Index

Biography

William E. Conklin, University of Windsor, Canada

Reviews for the original edition:

’...masterful, challenging, creative and thought provoking...he certainly knows what he is talking about, in matters both legal and philosophical...most original...’ Current Legal Theory

’...much of what he has attempted in his work is valuable.’ International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

’The breadth of vision is admirable...’ Philosophy in Review

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