Nome da Revista: International Journal for the
Semiotics of Law
Classificação: B1
Dossiê Temático: The Rearguard of
Subjectivity
Prazo: 11/03/2021
Titulação: Não informada.
Edmund Husserl’s ideas, impressed by Kant’s Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of subject and of subjectivity. Broekman unveiled in his 1961/63 “Phänomenologie und Egologie” how Husserl analyzed the “Split Ego”–thoughts in Kant’s vision, which became fundamental for his phenomenology. Form and function of subjectivity were likewise positioned in psychiatry and in literature as well as in aesthetics, as Broekman’s texts on ‘Cubism’ demonstrated. Problems of ‘language’ unfolded in studies from texts of Ezra Pound to dialogic insights of Martin Buber, all participating in significs developing into semiotics. Two themes accompanied these insights: the notion and later Parisian mainstream entitled structuralism as well as the urgency to deepen insights into links between Marxism and Phenomenology. Central language concepts played a role: already in 1986 Broekman published on ‘semiology and medical discourse’, in 1992 on ‘neurosemiotics’ whereas in 1993 the link between speech act and (legal as well as social) freedom was exposed. In all these thoughts played the subject and the atmosphere of subjectivity a role. Broekman had been teaching parallel to actual philosophical issues, law and medicine until his 1996 retirement, and offered a synthetic view in his “Intertwinements of Law and Medicine” revisiting the subjectivity dimensions. In 1998, during his six years of visiting professorship at the Illinois Urbana-Champaign Law School, he developed his “A Philosophy of European Union Law”. A 2004 study on “The Multicultural Self” brought him back to language and semiotics, especially when functioning several years as ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ at the Penn State University, Carlisle Law School, establishing there the “Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics”. Two issues of “International Journal for the Semiotics of Law” in 2009 and 2010, informed about these activities. The ‘Law and Semiotics’ thinking brought 2011 “The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education”, in 2013 “Lawyers Making Meaning” in 2015 “Signs in Law-A Source Book” and 2016 “Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real”. The subject in law amidst a plurality of languages types (especially analog- and digital language) remained a major theme in Broekman’s 2019 “Rethinking Law and Language. The Flagship ‘Speech’.” Its basic ideas were expanded in his “Springer Briefs in Law”, published with F. Fleerackers in 2020, entitled “Legal Thoughts Convert. Rethinking Legal Thinking”
Contributions are requested for—but not limited to—the following topics:
- The analog/digital dichotomy in semiotics
- The multicultural self in language and semiotics
- Semiology and legal discourse
- The legal subject and the atmosphere of subjectivity
- Intertwinements of law and medicine
- The semiotics of law in legal education
- Signs in law and legal discourse
- Making meaning in law
- Legal speech acts