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.
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ISBN
9783319281759
Publisert
2018
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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