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Abstract
Abstract. Building on Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms, this paper argues that the continuities and discontinuities characterizing the passage from medieval politics to modern democracy can best be understood by reference to political power's symbolic structure. For the one, political power, whether theocratic or democratic, always mediates an absolute power; as mediation, political power enacts the twofold movement which Cassirer has identified as characterisitc of all human symbolization: a distancing of, and approximation to, reality. For the other, democracy institutionalizes a category distinction between meaning and being, making of political unity a functional, rather than substantial, unity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 12-37 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 1998 |
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Representation and authority: investigations into the philosophy of law
van Roermund, B. (Researcher), Lindahl, H. (Researcher) & Ramose, M. B. (Researcher)
1/01/97 → 31/12/99
Project: Research project