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The Law as a System of Signs

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Roberta Kevelson

    1. Pennsylvania State University, Reading, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Contemporary Semiotics (TICSE)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction to Legal Semiotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Legal Semiotics

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 3-12

    3. Staking the Claim/Walking the Field

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 13-21

    4. Perspectives on the Legal System

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 23-31

    5. A Comparatist View

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 33-47

    6. Global Developments

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 49-56

  3. The Open Hand

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. The Art of Conversation

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 59-78

    3. Riddles, Legal Decisions, and Peirce’s “Existential Graphs”

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 79-101

    4. Speech Acts

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 103-111

    5. Pure Play

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 113-124

    6. Limits of Authority in Law

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 125-133

  4. Quid Pro Quo

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Contracts and Equivalences

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 137-149

    3. The Mapping of Morals onto Law

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 151-165

    4. Economic Justice

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 167-180

    5. Economic Links with Law

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 181-193

    6. Signs of the Naked and the Dressed

      • Roberta Kevelson
      Pages 195-202

  5. Interpretation and Value

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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Even if Peirce were well understood and there existed· general agreement among Peirce scholars on what he meant by his semiotics, or philosophy of signs, the undertaking of this book-wliich intends to establish a theoretical foundation for a new approach to understanding the interrelations of law, economics, and politics against referent systems of value-would be a risky venture. But since such general agreement on Peirce's work is lacking, one's sense of adventure in ideas requires further qualification. Indeed, the proverbial nerve for failure must in any case be attendant. If one succeeds, one has introduced for further inquiry the strong possibility that should our social systems of law, economics, and politics---our means of interpersonal transaction as a whole-be understood against the theoretical back­ ground of a dynamic, "motion-picture" universe that is continually becoming, that is infinitely developing and changing in response to genuinely novel elements that emerge as existents, then the basic concepts of rights, resources, and reality take on new dimensions of meaning in correspondence with n-dimensional, infinite value judgments or truth-like beliefs which one holds. If such a view, as Peirce maintained, were possible and tenable not only for philosophy but as the basis for action and interaction in the world of human experience and practical affairs, one would readily say that risk taking is a small price for the realization of such possibility.

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  • Pennsylvania State University, Reading, USA

    Roberta Kevelson

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