The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse: The Juridical Production and the Disclosure of Suffering
Author:   William E. Conklin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138360792


Pages:   298
Publication Date:   01 May 2024
Format:   Hardback
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The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse: The Juridical Production and the Disclosure of Suffering


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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 non-knower. The Phenomenology claims that the gap can be unconcealed if the knowers of the special language reconsider their assumptions about legal meaning, the body and desire. With a broad grasp of diverse problematics from the legal procedures, legal discourses and legal theory of three jurisdictions to exemplify his claims, the author interweaves arguments which draw from Edmund Husserl’s and Maurice Merleau Ponty’s insights about meaning. The author's effort demonstrates how one may unconceal lived laws through a re-reading of the role of the experiential body in legal signification. The author’s effort to retrieve the embodiment of legal meaning de-stabilizes deep assumptions of contemporary lawyers and legal theorists.

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Author:   William E. Conklin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.716kg
ISBN:  

9781138360792


ISBN 10:   1138360791
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   01 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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’...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 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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William E. Conklin, University of Windsor, Canada

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