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(...) The main objective of the (...) monograph is to demonstrate the presence of metaphors in legal texts, and their consequences for legal reasoning and legal interpretation. While accomplishing this objective, S. Wojtczak accepts one of the fundamental theses of cognitive linguistics: metaphor is a key element of human cognition, and an analysis of the ways in which metaphors are constructed and...

The book seeks to address comprehensively the relationship between legal scholarship and the notion of the political understood as the fundamental antagonism at the foundation of any human society, present in the deep structure of legal theory/philosophy of law and doctrinal legal scholarship (a concept developed in contemporary philosophy of politics by, inter alia, Chantal Mouffe). Specifically,...