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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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This article is published in Review of Metaphysics.The article was published on 1997-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy.read more
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Ecology and democratic governance: toward a deliberative model of environmental politics
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Compromise not consensus: designing a participatory process for landslide risk mitigation
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New social and health movements: Issues of representation and change
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Educating Europe : an analysis of EU educational policies
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Signing in the flesh : Notes on pragmatist hermeneutics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an alternative to classical hermeneutics, which focuses on discursive products and grasps meaning as the play of difference between linguistic signs.
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