Conscience, Consensus, & Crossroads in Law - Roberta Kevelson

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Résumé :
This book explores from selected semioticians' international and cross-cultural viewpoints, the changing concepts of custom and community. The idea of the 'primitive' as a complex social system is explored in the context of recent studies of comparative law. The range of focus is from Lockean majority-rule to aboriginal self-determination, and includes a new look at waning ideologies such as the ?old? feminism, Critical Legal Studies, and postmodernisms. Pragmatism is reinterpreted and reviewed with fresh eyes.

Biographie:
The Editor: Roberta Kevelson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Penn State. She is founder and Director of the Center for Semiotic Research in Law, Government and Economics. Her recent books include Peirce, Praxis, Paradox and Peirce's Esthetics of Freedom. In progress for 1995 publication is Peirce, Science, Signs to be followed by Peirce and American Pragmatism.
The Contributors: Roberta Kevelson, Bruce A. Arrigo, Jan Bekker, Virginia Black, Christopher K. Braun, Denis J. Brion, Robert Ginsberg, Stephen C. Hicks, Sharon Hom and Robin Paul Malloy, Kevin T. Jackson, Jay Knaack, Pierre Legrand, J. Ralph Lindgren, Alfred S. Neely, William Pencak, B.D.D. Radipati, Bruce L. Rockwood, W.T. Scott, Leon Sheleff, Helen Endre-Stacy, Donna E. West, Willem J. Witteveen