Search results for " Realism"
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Harmonisation of European contract law and legal translation: a role for comparative lawyers
2007
The problem of harmonizing the contract in Europe has caught the interest of law professors, researchers and the European institutions. After years of debates, the European Union is aware that a lack of uniform legal terminology prevents any kind of unification and harmonization of European Contract law. The need for a uniform legal terminology clashes with the multilingual legal terminology of European law. In Europe there is not just one, but many legislative and administrative languages, and each of them is an official language of the European institutions. In accordance with the principle of linguistic equality, the European Community (EC) recognizes that all legal instruments have to b…
On the Role of Inequalities in Legal Systems: A Tocquevilian View
2008
The present paper proposes to interpret the differences in legal systems between common-law and civil-law nations as arising from the importance given to adjudication in comparison with statute laws. It focuses on the relative costs of legal change by adjudication (case law development) when compared with legislation (statutory law development). The main argument is that the public concern with equality is a major determinant of the relative cost of adjudication in a legal system. We develop a model of the legal process that illustrates Tocqueville's fundamental intuition with regard to the uniformity of legal rules, and as a consequences, the relative importance of adjudication and legisla…
What Can Plans Do for Legal Theory?
2012
In his book, Legality (2011), Scott Shapiro puts forward what he claims to be "a new, and hopefully better" (better, namely, than the ones given so far) answer to "the overarching question of ‘What is law?’ - The central claim of this new account - the "Planning Thesis" - is that "legal activity is a form of social planning" -. "Legal institutions plan for the communities over which they claim authority, both by telling members what they may or may not do, and by identifying those who are entitled to affect what others may or may not do. Following this claim, legal rules are themselves generalized plans, or planlike norms, issued by those who are authorized to plan for others. And adjudicat…
La consciència de l?irreal en «Ronda naval sota la boira» de Pere Calders.
2017
Quan Pere Calders va presentar Ronda naval sota la boira (1957) a un concurs literari va provocar reaccions adverses en el jurat; quan la va publicar nou anys després la reacció crítica tampoc no va ser positiva. Una possible explicació es deu al fet que Calders, amb una consciència clara del desafiament, desvela els mecanismes de ficció i d’irrealitat que encobreix la tradició de la novel·la realista, que era considerada de referència tant per la crítica com pels lectors del país. En aquest article analitzem els procediments pels quals Calders construeix aquest món irreal alhora que els desvela.
System and flexibility in law
1991
Usually, rhetoric is supposed to provide a model of law which describes legal interactions as volitive, arbitrary, and void of any system. However, the Mainz School, founded by Theodor Viehweg, proves the contrary: without referring to any metaphysics, such as consensus or auditoire universel, it seeks to discover the systematic character and the more or less flexible structures of legal rhetoric.
La música en el realisme cinematogràfic d’Eric Rohmer
2021
Aquest article reflexiona sobre la presència de la música en l’obra assagística i cinematogràfica d’Eric Rohmer des d’una perspectiva interdisciplinària que té en compte el pensament de l’autor sobre altres arts, especialment sobre la literatura i el cinema. El nostre objectiu és mostrar la important reflexió sobre la creació i la recepció artística que va realitzar aquest autor a través del gènere literari de l’assaig i que va portar a la pràctica de manera coherent en les seues pel·lícules. La seua perspectiva realista, inspirada en la crítica cinematogràfica de Bazin i l’obra literària de Balzac, influeix en la seua manera de concebre i utilitzar la música en el cinema.
Chekhov's Poetic and Social Realism on the Italian Stage, 1924-1964.
2008
This article explores the introduction of Chekhov's plays to Italy through émigré circles in the first decades of the twentieth century, and traces how they were appropriated to suit the ideological exigencies of the time during the fascist period. It concludes with observations about Luchino Visconti's celebrated productions of the 1950s, which stressed the idea that Chekhov was first and foremost a political writer, and suggests how this particular view of the dramatist evolved in the early 1960s as the theatre once again reflected social attitudes and values. Anna Sica is a lecturer at the University of Palermo. She has published monographs in Italy on the commedia dell'arte (1997), Arth…
Grinding for war : Authenticity and experience in WWII MMOs
2017
Therapy the Natural Way: A Realist Exploration of the Wilderness Therapy Treatment Process in Adolescent Mental Health Care in Norway
2018
Wilderness therapy has the potential to meet the specific needs of the current adolescent population by providing a rather unique outdoor group treatment. Wilderness therapy is not a new approach to mental health treatment, but its theoretical basis is not yet clearly delineated, in part because of the diversity found across programs and contexts. This article presents a critical realist exploration of a wilderness therapy program that was recently implemented as part of adolescent mental health services in Southern Norway. In this study, we combine fieldwork and interviews for an in-depth investigation of the treatment process, where the objective was to acquire a deeper understanding of t…
Spekulaation paluu
2017
Kirja-arvio teoksesta Quentin Meillassoux, Äärellisyyden jälkeen. Tutkielma kontingenssin välttämättömyydestä (Après la finitude. Essai sur la nécessité de la contingence, 2006). Suom. Ari Korhonen. Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2017. 286 s. nonPeerReviewed