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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1985

Pages: 121-158

ISBN (Hardback): 9789024731268

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Reiner Schürmann, "Legislation-transgression", in: Phenomenology and the human sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1985

Legislation-transgression

strategies and counter-strategies in the transcendental justification of norms

Reiner Schürmann

pp. 121-158

in: Mohanty (ed), Phenomenology and the human sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1985

Abstract

With these rhetorical questions Jacques Derrida casts general suspicion on what is primarily constitutive of the transcendental tradition: the authority of the "I think" as the source of laws for both knowing and acting. In this paper I wish to show some presuppositions under which the legislative ego can appear as traversed by "the a priori of a counter-law," by a condition of "impossibility"; how an element of transgression can be seen to "contaminate" transcendental legislation at its very heart. I will then point out some consequences of the formal identity between legislation and transgression for the status of the social and human sciences today.

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1985

Pages: 121-158

ISBN (Hardback): 9789024731268

Full citation:

Reiner Schürmann, "Legislation-transgression", in: Phenomenology and the human sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1985