A Prophecy of Possibility

Metaphorical Explorations of Postmodern Legal Subjectivity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4085753
AutoresAustin Sarat (autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen29
Número4
Páginas615-630
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLaw & Society Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3053915
OpenAlexW2319953758
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

Pleasure precedes business. The child at play is practicing for life's responsibilities. Young impalas play at fencing with one another, thrusting and parrying. Art for art's sake was the main avenue ... to ancient technological breakthroughs. Such also is the way of metaphor: it flourishes in playful prose and high poetic art, but it is also vital at the growing edges of science and philosophy.-W. V. Quine (1979)What is truth? A moving army of metaphors, metonymies and anthropomorphisms, in short a summa of human relationships that are being poetically and rhetorically sublimated, transposed, and beautified until, after long and repeated use, a people considers them as solid, canonical, and unavoidable. Truths are illusions whose illusory nature has been forgotten, metaphors that have been used up and have lost their imprint and that now operate as mere metal, no longer as coins.-Nietzsche (1956

Epistemology · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subjectivity · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Psychology