The Juridical Voice of Literature: A Perspective on Literature’s Entanglement with Normativity

Based on the logic of the Lacanian mirror paradigm, Pierre Legendre claims that every culture needs to create a metaphysical entity of Reference, for the sake of the legitimacy and validity of its normative system. This entity disguises the abyss at the core of culture and legitimates it by staging...

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Main Author: Katrin Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2017-07-01
Series:On_Culture
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Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-3/becker-juridical-voice/