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Deduction and justification in the law : the role of legal terms and concepts

Legal terms, such as “ownership”, “ contract”, “validity”, “negligence”, are used as middle terms in legal deduction. The paper distinguishes two problems regarding this use. One is the logical function of terms for deduction within a normative system. Specific problems dealt with in this connection are meaning, definition, and economy of expression. The other problem connected with middle terms i

Virginia Woolf: Resisting the Sovereignty Trap

Looking principally at Michel Foucault’s ‘Governmentality’ (1978), my central claim is that it is possible to read in Virginia Woolf’s fiction the anticipation of a post-structuralist politics of difference which distances itself from outmoded political thinking. Woolf’s fiction runs counter to the dominant ‘grand-narrative’ of sovereignty which conceives of governance as a unified and centralised