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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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32Phanomenologie und Egologie: Faktisches und Transzendentales Ego Bei Edmund HusserlPhilosophical Quarterly 16 (65): 370. 1966.
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28Intertwinements of law and medicineLeuven University Press. 1996.PREFACE Ubi bene, ibi patria. The proverb expresses an important feature of this book. 'Being somewhere' necessarily implies an orientation towards ...
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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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19Introduction: Lawyers Making Meaning: The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and SemioticsInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 22 (1): 1-10. 2009.The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics is integrated in the regular program of a US Law School and student enrollment is honored with credit points. Hitherto, the study of Legal Semiotics has mainly been located outside the Law Schools in the US and the Faculties of Law in the EU. Two important questions within the more general theme of Legal Semiotics and Legal Education arose: (1) the program requirements in an education context, and (2) the attention and interests of the students. …Read more
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19Face to Face (II): Semiotics of Interactivity (review)International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 23 (1): 41-48. 2010.Faces challenge the sender-receiver model as the major scheme of thought for appropriately understanding interaction between human individuals. The openness and indeterminacy of faces lead to establish a semiotically relevant distinction between interaction and interactivity. The latter is our proposed articulation of the dynamic energy that thrives through the existence of signs and the uses of a semiotics. Facial expressions sustain and express the vital dynamism of making meaning in life. Thi…Read more
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18Face to FaceInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 22 (1): 45-59. 2009.Peirce shows how he presupposes that a ‘most general science of semeiotic’ is entirely a matter of culture. Semiotics unfolds even beyond the debate on specific differences between nature and culture. The expression ‘semiotics of culture’ entails all components of a true pleonasm. Pierce finds his parallel in the philosophy of Hegel and both philosophers consider the close ties between expressiveness and consciousness as a specifically human, cultural and spiritual activity. That viewpoint leads…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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17Commens and Communication: Mats Bergman Peirce’s Philosophy of Communication: The Rhetorical Underpinnings of the Theory of Signs. Continuum Press, London/new York, 2009, 197 pp, ISBN: 978-1-8470-6466-0International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 24 (2): 247-253. 2011.
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14Unordered 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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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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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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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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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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11A philosophy of European Union lawPeeters. 1999.Is the European Union a new Walden? Although a contrast in form and format, the Union is surprisingly close to the latter's underlying philosophy. One can read this proximity in the Treaties or the many facets of the European idea which mirrors in the Union's emerging legal system. Today there is no longer a Union of a limited number of Nation States desiring to end divisions among themselves, to acquire mutual respect and prosperity or a higher standard of living and working conditions for its …Read more
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8Mens en recht: essays tussen rechtstheorie en rechtspraktijk : liber amicorum J.M. BroekmanPeeters Pub & Booksellers. 1997.Wat is de plaats van het recht in de samenleving? Hoe fungeert het juridisch discours? Wie is de mens van het recht? Waartoe leiden de semantische transformaties die het recht tot een eigen discours maken? Hoe gaat de maatschappij met het juridisch discours om? Hoe verhoudt het rechtsbeleid zich tot de rechtswetenschap? Hoe verhouden de verschillende vakgebieden binnen het recht zich tot elkaar? Deze en andere vragen tussen rechtsfilosofie, rechtstheorie en rechtspraktijk worden in een collectie…Read more
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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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5Darstellung und Sinn: zur Bedeutung der Mimesis in Kunstphilosophie und PsychiatrieKönigshausen & Neumann. 1990.
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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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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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