The “quasi-magical” power of legal language undermined by AFP corruption
June 14, 2012
Law is the quintessential form of the symbolic power of naming that creates the things named, and creates social groups in particular. It confers upon the reality which arises from its classificatory operations the maximum permanence that any social entity has the power to confer upon another, the permanence we attribute to objects … The law is the quintessential form of “active” discourse, able by its own operation to produce ...
