Law As Symbolic Form Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of
Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics. They are separate domains for Cassirer, and both direct their claims differently on the individual. Whereas ethics concerns the motives of the individual,
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Law and Philosophy Library 82
Law as Symbolic Form Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law
LAW AS SYMBOLIC FORM
Law and Philosophy Library VOLUME 82
Managing Editors FRANCISCO J. LAPORTA, Department of Law, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain ALEKSANDER PECZENIK†, Department of Law, University of Lund, Sweden FREDERICK SCHAUER, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Former Managing Editors AULIS AARNIO, MICHAEL D. BAYLES†, CONRAD D. JOHNSON†, ALAN MABE Editorial Advisory Board AULIS AARNIO, Research Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland ´ ZENON BANKOWSKI, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh PAOLO COMANDUCCI, University of Genoa, Italy ERNESTO GARZÓN VALDÉS, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz JOHN KLEINIG, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York NEIL MacCORMICK, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium WOJCIECH SADURSKI, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy ROBERT S. SUMMERS, School of Law, Cornell University CARL WELLMAN, Department of Philosophy, Washington University
LAW AS SYMBOLIC FORM Ernst Cassirer and the Anthropocentric View of Law
DENIZ COSKUN Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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To the memory of my great-grandmother Meyrem Özcan
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My thanks go out to many. From an intellectual and aspirational point of view I want to thank Norman Redlich and Paul Kahn for their support throughout the process. My thanks go out also to Bruce Ackerman and our many interactions during the Justice course at Yale. My advisor Thomas Mertens has teached me a lot, professionally and personally. Paul Cliteur I want to thank for teaching me to write an essay. This book is written on a Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Scholarship. Furthermore, this book has benefited from my visit to Yale Law School and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. In addition, this book has benefited from my stay at Georgetown University Law Center, and my frequent visits to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library (for the Center of Advanced Holocaust Studies) in Washington, D.C., because of a Fulbright Scholars
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