Rodolfo Sacco’s research on “mute law” assumes supreme importance for the legal philosopher: it offers new categories for the inquiry into those legal phenomena which operate in absence of language. The concept of “cryptotype”, particularly, allows to investigate the phenomenon of non-verbal and non-verbalized rules, thus falsifying the widespread opinion that rules are linguistic entities. The present paper offers three original contributions to this research: firstly, it proposes the concept of “unconscious nomotropism” (that is, acting with reference to a rule with no real consciousness of that rule); secondly, it investigates the means for inferring a cryptotype from the observation of action (of unconscious nomotropic action); thirdly, (starting from a phenomenon described by Herodotus) it proposes the concept of an “extra-linguistic semiotic code” to give account of “mute” transcultural legal interaction.

Passerini Glazel, L. (2009). Decriptare criptòtipi. In R. Caterina (a cura di), La dimensione tacita del diritto (pp. 139-145). Napoli : Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane.

Decriptare criptòtipi

Passerini Glazel, L
2009

Abstract

Rodolfo Sacco’s research on “mute law” assumes supreme importance for the legal philosopher: it offers new categories for the inquiry into those legal phenomena which operate in absence of language. The concept of “cryptotype”, particularly, allows to investigate the phenomenon of non-verbal and non-verbalized rules, thus falsifying the widespread opinion that rules are linguistic entities. The present paper offers three original contributions to this research: firstly, it proposes the concept of “unconscious nomotropism” (that is, acting with reference to a rule with no real consciousness of that rule); secondly, it investigates the means for inferring a cryptotype from the observation of action (of unconscious nomotropic action); thirdly, (starting from a phenomenon described by Herodotus) it proposes the concept of an “extra-linguistic semiotic code” to give account of “mute” transcultural legal interaction.
Capitolo o saggio
Mute law; cryptotype; unwritten norms; semiotic code; nomotropism
Diritto muto, criptotipi, norme non scritte, codici semiotici, nomotropismo
Italian
La dimensione tacita del diritto
Caterina, R
2009
978-88-495-1857-3
Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane
139
145
Passerini Glazel, L. (2009). Decriptare criptòtipi. In R. Caterina (a cura di), La dimensione tacita del diritto (pp. 139-145). Napoli : Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane.
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