Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real

The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV

Jan M. Broekman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 287 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-80289-3 (ISBN)

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This book examines the concept of meaning and ourgeneral understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Startingfrom the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms ofarticulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. PartI presents Klages', Derrida's, Von Hofmannsthal's and Wittgenstein'sexplorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debatesabout 20^th century psychologism gave theattitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discoverythat a word is globally qualified as 'the basic unit of language'. Thisis mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles andthus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing 'particle story'. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics relatedto the chapter's theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge's 'Saying forLaw', on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between lawand language.

Part II of the book illustrates our generalunderstanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, andexamines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaningconcept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brainresearch focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to theparticle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particlesare neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledgeand the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than afixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result ofcontinuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos andcreation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrenceanchored in dimensions of human narrativity.

Professor Broekman has authored more than 30 books and 500 scientific articles on law and legal theory, philosophy of medicine, contemporary philosophy, semiotics, education, culture and politics in 13 languages, including, with Penn State Law professor Larry Catà Backer: Lawyers Making Meaning, (Springer, 2013) and also with Professor Backer, Signs in Law-A Source Book (Springer, 2014). From 2007-2013, he established and directed the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics at the Dickinson School of Law. The seminar inspired two Special Issues of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law in 2009 and 2010. In addition, he is supervising the preparation of the Kevelson Archive, designed to provide deeper insight and research into the origins and dimensions of semiotics in U.S. law.

Preface.- Part I Philosophy andLanguage.- Chapter 1 Silence.- Chapter2 Attitude.- Chapter 3 Word.- Part II Particles andPartition.- Chapter 4 Particles.- Chapter5 Partitions.- Chapter6 Meaning in a New Key.- SubjectIndex.- Author Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 287 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	468 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Schlagworte	Attitude as a Phenomenological Issue • Attitude as a Philosophical Concept • Attitude in Phenomenological Meaning • Attitude in Psychology and Philosophy • Attitude, Partition and Plurality • Chandos Letter • Frege, and the Sentence • Husserl on Logic • Julia Kristeva • Legal Semiotics • Logocentric Silence • Meaning and Attitude • Philosophy and Language • Quantum (Theory) • Sign Pool • Silence and 'Saying for Law' • Silence and ‘Saying for Law’ • Theory and Experiment
ISBN-10	3-319-80289-5 / 3319802895
ISBN-13	978-3-319-80289-3 / 9783319802893
Zustand	Neuware