This course, which adopts the approach of conceptual history, seeks to show the value of analysing law as one of the ways in which society expresses its requirement for normativity. Normativity is understood as a plural concept with a comparative dimension. The object is to explore the combination, influence, and competition between legal norms and regulatory criteria produced in other spheres of social life and by the doctrines that belong to those spheres. From this perspective, the encounter between law and religion serves to illustrate the formation and functioning of the principles and norms which structure not only the relations between subjects with respect to one another, but also their relation to earthly and heavenly things.
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Programme
In the framework of the training activity French legal language "Les normes et le sacré", the course will be dedicated to a comparative history of the concept of institution. The first meetings will focus on an analysis of the juridical sense of institution also in light of the contributions provided by religion (theology and canon law), sociology, anthropology, economics and politics. The second part of the course will be devoted to the historical and current reflection on some voices of the Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes of the linguist Emile Benveniste. In particular we will examine: 1) «fidélité personnelle»; 2) "créance et croyance"; 3) "gratuité et reconnaissance"; 4) "" med "et la notion de mesure". It will not be a question of offering a reading from a linguistic point of view, but of using the results of Benveniste's survey as a basis for developing a multidisciplinary reflection on the institution.Core Documentation
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The teaching will be conducted in seminar modeType of evaluation
The exam will consist of an interview to ascertain the acquisition of the tools and contents carried out during the training activity.