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"However, it became apparent shortly after the establishing of the Center that not only were all methods of legal semiotics not Peircean in origin, but were in their respective foundational assumptions not likely to be compatible with Peirce's semiotics without some radical, transforming development of the idea, 'legal semiotics'. It was clear that if one would intend to be faithful to Peircean semiotics then holding a fixed notion of what an idea of Peircean semiotics of law means would be a violation of the spirit of Peirce's thought; this above all emphasizes the growth and development of initiative ideas and also the stricture that all leading principles must be subject to revision. Even the idea of Peircean semiotics, as leading principle, must itself be an open idea, the meaning of which must be transformable through the process of defining it. A metasemiotics view of a semiotics of law must leave open the possibility for revision of the leading principle of the term, ""legal semiotics. "" Therefore, if legal semiotics is an idea which accumulates and evolves its meaning in the very process of self-examination, then a process of investigating law investigates itself as well in any semiotic process of inquiry. It became apparent that the most appropriate contribution the Center could make to the area of a Peirce an semiotics would be to act as a sponsor, an inclusive rather than exclusive agent for inquiry of all kinds into the general topic of law and semiotics."

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Author:   Roberta Kevelson
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781461282655

ISBN 10:   1461282659
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   06 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

to the First Round Table on Law and Semiotics.- Analytical Rhetoric, Semiotic and Law.- The Semiotic Web of the Law.- The Shopping Mall: Signs of Power.- The Prescriptions of the New Hobbesian Contractarian.- Animals as Property and the Law.- The Problem of Normative Authority in Legal Interpretation.- Natural Law and Emancipation: Toward a Theonomous Democracy.- Communication Research and the Practice of Lawyering: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?.- Psychoanalysis in Legal Education: Notes on the Violence of the Sign.- The Rhetoric of Esotericism: The ‘Challenge’ to Deconstruction.- Legitimizing ‘Repugnancy’ in Law: Peirce and Contradiction.- Constitutionalism: Principle and Policy.- The United States Constitution: A Semiotic Interpretation.- The Merely Symbolic.

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