Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
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Beschreibung
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 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 tiesbetween 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.
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 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.
Of particular interest to students and practitioners interested in the concept of meaning and the understanding of reality in a legal context Is the first study of "Meaning" as a process, not based on the atomistic concept of reality as a matter of particles Offers a surprising discovery: the word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’ because we view reality as a matter of particles Shows the relevance of meaning for law and semiotics, based on philosophy, physics and the arts
Autor*in
Jan M. Broekman
Themen in »Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real«
Quantum (Theory) Philosophy and Language Sign Pool Logocentric Silence Chandos Letter Legal Semiotics Silence and ‘Saying for Law’ Meaning and Attitude Attitude in Psychology and Philosophy Husserl on Logic Attitude as a Philosophical Concept Attitude as a Phenomenological Issue Attitude in Phenomenological Meaning Attitude, Partition and Plurality Theory and Experiment