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(1985) Phenomenology and the human sciences, Dordrecht, Springer.
Legislation-transgression
strategies and counter-strategies in the transcendental justification of norms
Reiner Schürmann
pp. 121-158
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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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5081-8_9
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Schürmann, R. (1985)., Legislation-transgression: strategies and counter-strategies in the transcendental justification of norms, in J. N. Mohanty (ed.), Phenomenology and the human sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 121-158.
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