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relating to judicial proceedings and the administration of the law

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juridical



It does not exist as a juridical category.

Seeing Through Police (270) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago


To secure the meaning of a work for all time, rescuing it from the ravages of history, criticism has to police its potentially anarchic details, hemming them back with the compound of 'typical' meaning. Its stance towards the text is authoritarian and juridical

—p.68 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory (54) by Terry Eagleton
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7 years, 1 month ago


the spectacular comfort of familial, juridical, religious norms

—p.182 Electoral Photogeny (181) by Roland Barthes
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7 years, 4 months ago


something with a stable structure and a juridical status

—p.118 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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7 years, 3 months ago


I turned around and took in the room, feeling haughty and juridical. I saw no mitigating much less exculpatory evidence, nothing to encourage the commutation of his sentence.

the characterisation of the narrator is great

—p.116 Or Things I Did Not Do or Say (105) by Benjamin Kunkel
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5 years, 1 month ago