Thought Collectives and Cultural Change
Applying Ludwik Fleck's Theory of Thought Collectives to the Study of Cultural Transformations
About this book series
The series Living Signs of Law aims to delve into the diverse and innovative work within the field of law, specifically focusing on areas such as legal semiotics, hermeneutics, pragmatism, deconstructionism, interpretation, and history. It recognizes law as a complex system of signs that is constantly evolving and can have varying orientations, sometimes working independently and at other times conflicting with one another. Living Signs of Law seeks to explore how different perspectives on legal truth and legal culture can emerge within this dynamic and tension-filled system.
The concept of law as “living signs” highlights its capacity to adapt to social changes while also creating alternative trajectories or means of change for more contemporary visions. However, certain lines of resistance may arise, hindering the process of change and resulting in inertia or slow transformation. These tensions within the system of legal signs reflect its non-homogeneous nature, influenced by internal and external forces that shape and divide it. The series aims to examine these forces and adjustment variables, providing a realistic and semiotically grounded understanding of the reality expressed through laws, statutes, decisions, and other legal activities.
By exploring various trajectories and analyzing their relationships, the series seeks to reveal lines of evolutionary resistance or transformation within the field of law. It welcomes proposals that focus on semiotics or related theories and models of analysis, as well as topics such as rhetoric, political and legal discourse history, philosophy, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, deconstruction, and other types of semiotic analyses. Living Signs of Law aims to shed light on the dynamic nature of law and its diverse manifestations, providing a comprehensive exploration of legal signs, justice, hermeneutics, pragmatism, deconstructionism, interpretation, and history within the field of law, as well as examining the role of communication and representation in these processes.
- Electronic ISSN
- 2948-2429
- Print ISSN
- 2948-2410
- Series Editor
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- Anne Wagner,
- Sarah Marusek
