Pub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s11196-020-09786-7
Gabriele Vissio
This paper aims at giving an account of the philosophy of norms of Georges Canguilhem in the framework of his philosophical vitalism. According to Canguilhem, vitalism is not a metaphysical or ontological theory, but rather a general attitude or a perspective about life and living beings, both understood employing the axiological concept of 'normativity'. This notion allows Canguilhem to enlarge the concept of life beyond the field of biological phenomena, encompassing also phenomena of the social world, included technique and scientific knowledge and rationality. Canguilhem's perspective relocates human activities within a vitalistic conception of life, which redefines the meaning of human reason by putting it in relation to values and norms.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-05-09DOI: 10.1007/s11196-020-09714-9
Mark Featherstone
The purpose of this introduction is to sketch out the value of psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century and in particular the ways in which analysis might enable us to move beyond the crisis of the post-Cold War symbolic order.
这篇引言的目的是概述精神分析在21世纪的价值,特别是分析可能使我们超越冷战后象征秩序危机的方式。
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-05-12DOI: 10.1007/s11196-020-09715-8
Mark Featherstone
The objective of this article is to explore the value of psychoanalysis in the early twenty-first century through reference to Freud, Lacan, and Stiegler's work on computational madness. In the first section of the article I consider the original objectives of psychoanalysis through reference to what I call Freud's 'normalisation project', before exploring the critique of this discourse concerned with the defence of oedipal law through a discussion of the post-modern 'individualisation project' set out by Deleuze and Guattari and others. Tracking the development of 'the individualisation project' in history, I consider its connections with the cybernetic theories of Wiener and Shannon in the psycho-cyber-utopianism of the 1990s, before moving on to consider the other side of the psychoanalytic-cybernetic interaction through a discussion of Jacques Lacan's rereading of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle in the second section of the article. In reading Lacan's seminar on Freudian drive in terms of the cybernetic repression of death, I set up the conclusion to the article which involves a discussion of Bernard Stiegler's 'survival project' that relies on a recognition of the limit of death in order to produce human significance and oppose the madness of our contemporary computational reality.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-08-09DOI: 10.1007/s11196-020-09760-3
Anna Piszcz, Halina Sierocka
The aim of this short essay is to highlight and concisely explore-but not address in depth-some cultural aspects related to legal languages, legal interpretation and legal translation. We would like to consider briefly the following questions: How can elements of legal language, as exemplified by proper names and euphemisms, be connected with cultural (extra-linguistic) factors influencing language units' formation? How can judicial discourse reflect the culture of a given justice system? How can the legal interpretation affect the degree of legal culture? Are theories of legal interpretation universal or applicable to specific legal cultures? What is the impact of culture on the context of legal translation? How can the cultural background affect the decision to use terms in translation? How does cyberculture impact legal translation?
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Pub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1935582
Anne M. Wagner, Sophie Cacciaguidi-fahy
This issue offers a robust, wide-ranging encounter with the forces of commodification and alienation, with different efforts toward intervention and political engagement. The contributions herein—sometimes weaving these themes together, sometimes unraveling or knotting them up—include a book symposium, three individually submitted essays, two book reviews, and a special symposium on the public-scholar work of one of the journal’s former chief editors, David Ruccio. The issue begins with David F. Ruccio and Kenan Erçel’s vibrant conversation about Ruccio’s impactful, long-running blog, Occasional Links & Commentary on Economics, Culture and Society. The blog emerged in part from Ruccio’s desire to respond to the 2009 crisis, what he refers to as the Second Great Depression, and it has enabled an expansion of the pedagogical approach Ruccio had been advancing in the classroom for years as a teacher of economics at the University of Notre Dame. The blog has since generated 10,000 posts and nearly 1.3 million views. It is a public-education project intended to upend common-sense ideas and categories and to open spaces for new possibilities and demands. Reflecting on both the blog and the historical context in which it has developed, Erçel and Ruccio think through differences between classroom teaching and the types of conversations that can take place through a blog. They compare the constraints of academic work and the contrasting freedoms that the blog engenders—in particular, as a means to produce and communicate provisional, emergent ideas through a wide range of textual forms (perhaps most notable here is Ruccio’s extensive use of cartoons)—and they discuss the importance and the challenges of interrogating the features of the current conjuncture. States Ruccio, “the grotesque features of contemporary capitalism—its obscene inequalities, its role in creating global warming, the continued disciplining and punishing of the working classes, its systemic racism, and most recently the unequal conditions and consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic—as well as the instances of resistance and the forging of new utopian visions, constitute the raw materials ... that, at least for me, keep the blog relevant as a project of ruthless criticism.” The symposium, edited by Erçel, feautures a range of contributors—Ruccio’s students, interlocutors, and colleagues—who extend the insights generated in the interview and highlight the thematic interventions that for each contributor RETHINKING MARXISM, 2021 Vol. 33, No. 3, 329–334, https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2021.1935582
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Pub Date : 2017-08-21DOI: 10.1007/S11196-017-9525-X
Kieran Tranter
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Pub Date : 2016-07-14DOI: 10.1007/s11196-016-9488-3
Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo
{"title":"Linguistic Patterns of Modality in UN Resolutions: The Role of Shall, Should, and May in Security Council Resolutions Relating to the Second Gulf War","authors":"Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo","doi":"10.1007/s11196-016-9488-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-016-9488-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11196-016-9488-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52444734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-02-26DOI: 10.1007/s11196-016-9456-y
M. I. Garrido Gómez
{"title":"The Legal Culture of Political Representation: Evolution and Balance of Its Current Situation Within Democracies","authors":"M. I. Garrido Gómez","doi":"10.1007/s11196-016-9456-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-016-9456-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44376,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11196-016-9456-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52444701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-05-19DOI: 10.1007/s11196-015-9425-x
Luis Gómez Romero
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Pub Date : 2015-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s11196-015-9406-0
Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo
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