The Rearguard of Subjectivity: On Legal Semiotics – Festschrift in Honour of Jan M. Broekman (Law and Visual Jurisprudence, 9)

Preface
	Book Publications Jan M. Broekman
Contents
The Efficient Jurist as a Semiotician: A Dialogue with Jan Broekman and Larry Catá Backer
	1 Introduction
	2 The Questions Concerning the Internal and External Points of View: A Dialogue with Hart, Postema and Fish
	3 The CLS´s Interiorization of the Semiotic Modus Operandi: An Exemplary Manifestation of the Possibilities and Limits of the ...
	4 Answering Paths
		4.1 Considering the First Ensemble of Questions
		4.2 Considering the Second Ensemble of Questions
	References
On the Life and Work of Tikhon Fedorovich Stepanov
	References
Describe, Predict, Intervene!-On Objective Subjectivities and the Simulacra of Semiotics in the New Era; Simulated Significati...
	1 Introduction
	2 Mathematical Intuition for the Masses
		2.1 From Model to Subject  And Back Again
		2.2 The Reality of the Model and the Model of Reality-Modeling COVID in the US
			2.2.1 Constituting the COVID-19 Golem
			2.2.2 The Building Blocks of Imitation
			2.2.3 The Simulation as the Modeled Collective
			2.2.4 Simulation as Politics and the Battle of the Models in the United States
	3 In Search of Semiotic `Trantors´: The Modeling of Predictive Universes
		3.1 The Construction and Operation of Contemporary Trantors-The New Semiotics of Regulations and Social Relations Trantor
		3.2 Reading the Runes: The Semiotics of Modelling and the Modelling of Semiotics
	4 Conclusion: Interpreting Pharoah´s Dream in Trantor
	References
Students Making Meaning: Teaching Legal Semiotics in the Context of International Law
	1 Introduction
	2 Method and Students
	3 Reading Semiotics
	4 Semiotics and Interpretation
	5 Silence as a Sign in International Law
	6 Simulating UN Treaty-Body Meetings
	7 Law Teachers as Semioethicians
	8 Conclusion
	References
On Language and Power
Rethinking Legal Thinking
	1 Law, Lawyer and Judicial Thoughts
		1.1 Case and Law
		1.2 Legal Argumentation
		1.3 Interactivity
	2 Formative Social Forces in Law
		2.1 Precedents and Statutes
		2.2 Legalism
		2.3 Realism
		2.4 Legal Process
		2.5 Originalism
		2.6 Pragmatism
	3 Law, Case and Concept
		3.1 Foundational Structures
		3.2 Case Driven
		3.3 Case by Case
	References
Reflecting on Law and Language
	1 Introduction
	2 On Languages, Artificial and Natural, and the Construction of Socio-Political Orders
	3 Language and the Formation of Legal Consciousness
	4 Semiotics, Law, Subjectivity
	5 The Legal Subject´s Linguisitic Position
	6 ``Conversions´´ Between ``Analog´´ and ``Digital´´ Languages
	7 Conclusions
	8 A Doubt
	References
Jan Broekman and the Multicultural Self
	1 Why Western European Multiculturalism Failed
	2 Who Is the Multicultural Self?
		2.1 Broekman´s Description of the Multicultural Self
		2.2 The Multicultural Self as a Hermeneutical Achievement
	3 The Multicultural Self as the Result of Democratic Politics
		3.1 Between Taylor and Habermas: Ignatieff´s Minimalist Approach to Human Rights
		3.2 Politically Enabling the Multicultural Self
	4 Conclusion
	References
Lady Justice´s Crooked Teeth: Sustainable Judicial Empathy Through (Inter-)Personal Rela(xa)tion(s)
	1 Introduction and Scope
	2 Belgium´s Un-enviable Politico-judicial Constellation: Legal Positivism as Cartesianism in legalibus
	3 Judicial Empathy Fatigue, Chronic Stress and Social Rela(xa)tion(s)
	4 Conclusion
	References
Narrativity and Memory. Towards an Ethics of Testimony
	1 Narrative Plots and Fragmentary Documents
	2 An Identity Constructed Between the Cracks
	3 The Duty of Memory as a Duty to Do Justice
	References
Juridical Dignity and (Inter)subjectivity: Semiotic and Normative Levels
	1 Human Dignity and Juridical Dignity
		1.1 Juridical Dignity and Juridical (Inter)subjectivity
		1.2 Juridical Subjects, Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity Within the Validity of Law
	2 For a Reconstruction of the Relationship Between Juridical Dignity and Human Dignity, Within Difference and Recognition
	References
The Performance of (the Declaration of) Independence
	1 Performing a Constitution
	2 Theatricalizing a Declaration
	References
Philosophy of Friendship
	1 Lysis
	2 Gilgamesh
	3 Koinonia
	4 The Existential Need for Friendship
	5 The Aristotelian Definition of Friendship
	6 From Aristotle to Mauss
	7 Rumi and Shams of Tabriz
	8 Friendship and Otherness
	References
From Life to Law: Towards an Evolving Conception of Ecocide
	1 Dual Circuit of Law
	2 Lines of Resistance
	3 Lines of Transformation
	4 Conclusion
	References
Subject and Self
	References