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A Return to Koskenniemi, or the Disconcerting Co-optation of Rupture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
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The reality of ideological phenomena is the objective reality of social signs. The laws of this reality are the laws of semiotic communication and are directly determined by the total aggregate of social and economic laws. Ideological reality is the immediate superstructure above the economic basis. Individual consciousness is not the architect of their ideological superstructure, but only a tenant lodging in the social edifice of ideological signs.
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- German Law Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 5: The Ruptures in International Law , May 2012 , pp. 483 - 496
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