The Metaphysics of American Law

Abstract

never be neutral; representational activity, of which legal discourse is a part, performs politically.The notion that legal representational activity is ideological will be developed in the following pages through an analysis of the mediating characteristics of language."Language," as the form of communication, can never escape its own textuality.'It is intertwined with the content of communication and contains its own substantive messages apart from that which it purports to represent. A. The Social Construction of Knowledge 6Language is conventionally considered a transparent vessel for 5.In other words, there is nothing beyond "interpretation.""If interpretation is a never ending task, it is simply because there is nothing to interpret.There is nothing absolutely primary to interpret because, when all is said and done, underneath it all everything is already interpretation."H.

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