Wednesday 16 November 2016

Gunnar Folke Schuppert is presenting a working paper on 'the language of law in the "concert of language of politics"'

Research on the universal, the world- or, as it seems to have become the conceptual name for it – of global history – are the fashion of the day. This also applies to the global history of ideas, which is considered one of the facets of global history. As far as this branch of a globalized history of ideas is concerned, a number of different approaches are possible. Some prefer to deal with the emergence and dissemination of ‘big ideas’, others - such as Martin Mulsow - hold such a narrowed concepts for little meaningful. Probably the most popular methodical approach, however, is the history of ideas as an entangled history, in particular looking at ‘intermediaries, translations, and networks’. A third methodological approach is to use ideas as a history of language, which means languages ​​used in public discourses, for example, as common good, in order to establish a good and just order and in general terms for a ‘Good Government’. Necessary elements, for example, are the languages of theology, of philosophy but also those of law. The latter leads us to the topic of this working papers, namely the role of language of law in the political discourse, be it the pre-modern, the early modern period, or – in which we are particularly interested in - the present. We suggest that we can learn something about the present when we think about what language of law brought it about.

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