Paper's abstract

Pierre Caye, The Immaterial Condition of the World and the Issue of Law
There is an indestructible knot between Being, technique and law. But this close knot seems today to be questioned by the new communication techniques which not only blur the task of qualification and of mastering facts assumed by law but in an even more conclusive way generate a real desinstitutionalisation of the world. Law become a mere regularization. It is the very possibility of law, of its understanding of things and of its justice which is hereby threatened. But law owns a genius that nobody can take away: the genius of duration, of transmitting and succeeding things and being through time. It is then the role of law to think how time and transmission can stand the test of the technical dematerialization of the world in order to overcome nihilism.

Key Words : technique, being, communication, fact, dematerialization
t. 43, 1999 : p. 225-232

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