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22A Structuralist Approach to the Philosophy of LawProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 49 (n/a): 37-48. 1975.
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4Signs In Law - A Source Book: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education III (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2015.This volume provides a critical roadmap through the major historical sources of legal semiotics as we know them today. The history of legal semiotics, now at least a century old, has never been written (a non-event itself pregnant with semiotic possibility). As a consequence, its sources are seldom clearly exposed and, as word, object and meaning change, are sometimes lost. They reach from an English translation of the 1916 inaugural lecture of the first Chair in Legal Significs at the Amsterdam…Read more
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5Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IVImprint: Springer. 2016.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 ill…Read more
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11Legal Signs Fascinate: Kevelson’s Research on SemioticsSpringer Verlag. 2017.This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept ‘legal semiotics’, focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson. It highlights the importance of her ideas and works which have contributed to legal theory, legal interpretation and philosophy of language. Kevelson’s work is particularly relevant today, in our world of global electronic communication networks which rely so much on language, signs, signals and shortcuts. Kevelson could not have foreseen the 21st ce…Read more
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The Minimum Content of Positivism. Positivism in the Law and in Legal TheoryRechtstheorie 16 (4). 1985.
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6Philosophie als ErfahrungswissenschaftM. Nijhoff. 1965.die Behandlungsweise kann jedoch sehr verschieden sein. Diese letztere charakterisiert nicht nur eine bestimmte Auffassung von Philosophie, sondern ebenso den Philosophen, der sie anwendet. In dem Sinne ist jede Erörterung eines philosophischen Gedankens zugleich eine bio graphische Notiz. Der erfahrungswissenschaftliche Charakter der in diesem Band ge sammelten philosophische Gedankengänge entstammt zu einem er heblichen Teil der Kenntnisnahme der (ursprünglich amerikanischen) Kulturanthropolog…Read more
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18Signs of Law: The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of LawInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 23 (1): 1-1. 2010.
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12Russisch formalisme, marxisme, strukturalismeTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 33 (1). 1971.Die Diskussion zwischen Marxismus und Strukturalismus wird im allgemeinen als eine Angelegenheit des heutigen französischen Strukturalismus betrachtet. Diese Auffassung wird hier relativiert und erweitert. Es stellt sich nämlich heraus, dass Wurzeln des jetzigen strukturalen Denkens im Russischen Formalismus zu finden sind und dass bereits dort eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Marxismus stattfand, die bis heute ihre Gültigkeit behalten hat. Die wichtigsten Themen dieser Diskussion sind die Idee d…Read more
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11Trading Signs: Semiotic Practices in Law and MedicineInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 20 (3): 223-236. 2007.Lawyers write, blog and are otherwise producers of words; they structure public life through legal discourse and integrate all issues that reinforce legal reasoning. Even if one is inclined not to justify the power of their words in the context of a democratic theory, one is hardly able to challenge its public acceptance. But semiotic analyses harden the question whether these emperors wear nothing but robes. That attitude intensifies where medicine becomes increasingly relevant for legal discou…Read more
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47Structuralism: Moscow, Prague, ParisD. Reidel Pub. Co.. 1974.THE STRUCTURALISTIC ENDEAVOUR. THE WORLD AS MUSICAL SCORE The recent decades of this century have witnessed unusually rapid and far- reaching changes in the ...
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35The philosophical basis of medicine as a philosophical questionTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2 (2). 1987.The question of the philosophical basis of medical science and medical practice is considered under three closely related themes: (i) the doctor-patient relationship, (ii) the structure of the medical-ethical discourse, and (iii) the problem of philosophical founding in relation to medical conduct. The doctor-patient relationship is regarded as a transformational relation. Acceptance of the illness of the patient, the construction of a complaint as a necessary condition — and not a description o…Read more
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Fenomenologie en marxisme: Een probleemstelling, een gesprekTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 38 (4): 650-653. 1976.
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Scholem, G., Walter Benjamin und sein Engel (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 49 (n/a): 709. 1987.
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15Unordered LivesPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 7 (3): 223-228. 2000.The close ties between law and psychiatric illness challenge our effort to understand the complex semantics of Western culture and the foundations of law in the heart of that culture. It is, however, difficult to be immediately confronted with the limitations of these semantics. Can one ever achieve a refined precision of psychiatric issues? Lawyers and psychiatrists tend to disregard the fact that people live within different realms of expressiveness, even where the same phenomena seem apparent…Read more
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11“Verbal and nonverbal” in semioticsSemiotica 2017 (216): 19-40. 2017.Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2017 Heft: 216 Seiten: 19-40.
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