Prospects of Legal Semiotics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wagner, Anne (Editor), Broekman, Jan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Law.; Logic.; Political science.; Linguistics.; Law > Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Linguistics, general.

This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation. This study in Legal Semiotics br...

Table of Contents:

• Part I – Deconstructing Legal Semiotics
• Chapter 1 – Legal Semiotics and Semiotic Aspects of Jurisprudence; Bernard Jackson
• Chapter 2 - Firstness and phenomenology - Peirce and Husserl on Attitude Change; Jan M. Broekman
• Chapter 3 - The gift and the meaning-giving subject: a reading of Given Time; Jacques de Ville
• Chapter 4 - Resources for a Dialectical Legal Semiotics?Michael Salter
• Part II –Legal Semiotics as Communication
• Chapter 5 - The problems of the subjects; Louis Wolcher
• Chapter 6 - Law and governance in prophetic painting: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Gilles Deleuze'; Ronnie Lippens
• Chapter 7 - Visual Law: The Changing Signifiers of Law in Popular Visual Culture; Jason Brainbridge
• Chapter 8 - Legal Controversies about the Establishment of New Places of Worship in Multicultural Cities: A Semiogeographic Analysis;Massimo Leone
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.