LY200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Agricultural Show, Dialectic, Performativity
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Social realists say; what law is, is the effect that t has on the people it is meant to govern. Theory is not like a pair of glasses; it is rather like a pair of guns; it does not enable one to see better but to fight better. jos guilherme merquoir. In the late 19/20th century, he was really worried about the masses, a ground of people dangerous irrationality. He thought that it was the elite classes only that could rule, procreate and govern. In 1906 he goes to a county fair, and sees a competition, how much does the ox weigh. He found, when a bunch of individuals come together, they can create something important and can come to a consensus. To recognize the performativity of discourse is to recognize its power its ability to produce the effects that it name". But the process of repetition y which discourse produces its effects is characterized by hesitancies and interruptions.
