The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse: The Juridical Production and the Disclosure of Suffering...

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William E. Conklin

The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse

The Juridical Production and the Disclosure of Suffering

William E. Conklin

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Routledge
01 May 2024

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1998, The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse recovers the suffering which is concealed as lawyers, judges and other legal officials resignify a harm through the special vocabulary and grammar which constitutes legal language. At the moment of re-signification, an untranslatable gap erupts between the knowers’ special language and the embodied meanings of the non-knower. The Phenomenology claims that the gap can be unconcealed if the knowers of the special language reconsider their assumptions about legal meaning, the body and desire.

With a broad grasp of diverse problematics from the legal procedures, legal discourses and legal theory of three jurisdictions to exemplify his claims, the author interweaves arguments which draw from Edmund Husserl’s and Maurice Merleau Ponty’s insights about meaning. The author's effort demonstrates how one may unconceal lived laws through a re-reading of the role of the experiential body in legal signification. The author’s effort to retrieve the embodiment of legal meaning de-stabilizes deep assumptions of contemporary lawyers and legal theorists.

By: William E. Conklin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781138360792
ISBN 10: 1138360791
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 01 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , Adult education , ELT Advanced , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

William E. Conklin, University of Windsor, Canada

Reviews for The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse: The Juridical Production and the Disclosure of Suffering

’...masterful, challenging, creative and thought provoking...he certainly knows what he is talking about, in matters both legal and philosophical...most original...’ Current Legal Theory ’...much of what he has attempted in his work is valuable.’ International Journal for the Semiotics of Law ’The breadth of vision is admirable...’ Philosophy in Review Reviews for the original edition: ’...masterful, challenging, creative and thought provoking...he certainly knows what he is talking about, in matters both legal and philosophical...most original...’ Current Legal Theory ’...much of what he has attempted in his work is valuable.’ International Journal for the Semiotics of Law ’The breadth of vision is admirable...’ Philosophy in Review