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Semiotics, Law & Art

Between Theory of Justice and Theory of Law

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Authors:
  1. Eduardo C.B. Bittar

    1. Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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  • Presents an interdisciplinary study of the relation between semiotics, law & art
  • Offers a unique approach about the state of the debates and analysis related to the relation between semiotics, law & art
  • Presents a sensible, rigorous and globally situated analysis of concrete works of art

Part of the book series: Law and Visual Jurisprudence (LVJ, volume 2)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. General Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Semiotics, Law and Art

      • Eduardo C. B. Bittar
      Pages 3-22

    3. Semiotics, Art and Experience

      • Eduardo C. B. Bittar
      Pages 23-49

    4. Society, Law and Art

      • Eduardo C. B. Bittar
      Pages 51-69

  3. Special Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Applied Semiotics, Law and Art

      • Eduardo C. B. Bittar
      Pages 73-204

    3. Conclusions

      • Eduardo C. B. Bittar
      Pages 205-206

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 207-216
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About this book

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the relation between semiotics, law & art. Focusing on Greimasian semiotics, it examines specific works of art (from Giotto to Banksy) that deal with the theme of justice, promoting a more sensitive and humanized perception of the values that surround law. The book offers readers a comprehensive review of the semiotics of law, critically examining the relation between law & art. It covers a variety of topics, including semiotics, law and art; semiotics, art and experience; and society, law and art, as well as semiotics, law and painting; semiotics, law and architecture; semiotics, law and theatre; semiotics, law and literature; and semiotics, law and culture. In doing so, it uses the semiotics of painting to explain the symbology of justice and its significance in history; the semiotics of architecture to explain the setting of justice; the semiotics of theatre to explain the logic of the legal process; and the semiotics of literature toexplain the narrative logic of legal decisions. Lastly, drawing on the semiotics of culture, it discusses ways of promoting justice, citizenship and human rights.  Written from both philosophical and semiotical perspectives, the book enhances the centrality of visual jurisprudence studies to promote a better understanding of the role of law.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Eduardo C.B. Bittar

About the author

Eduardo C.B. Bittar is ​Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and General Theory of Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (Brazil - USP). He was President of the National Association for Human Rights (ANDHEP, 2009-2010). He was 2nd. Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Philosophy of Law (IVR/Brazil, 2009-2016). He was Visiting Professor at the Università di Bologna (Bologna, Italy, 2017), Visiting Professor at the Université Paris-Nanterre (Paris, France, 2018) and at the Collège de France (Paris, France, 2019). He is a N-2 researcher at CNPq (2017-2020). He is Associate Editor of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (IJSL- Springer).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Semiotics, Law & Art

  • Book Subtitle: Between Theory of Justice and Theory of Law

  • Authors: Eduardo C.B. Bittar

  • Series Title: Law and Visual Jurisprudence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58880-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58879-3Published: 04 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58882-3Published: 04 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58880-9Published: 03 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-4532

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-4540

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law

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