In and ‘Out of Joint’, In and Out of the Norm. On Rhetoric and Law

The chapter presents an innovative approach to the relationship between law and language. A new rhetoric of law today should thus retrieve the roots of its ancient origins in order to establish itself, again, as a technique, a practice, a discourse, a science of the contingent. Precisely in the age of the correspondence between information and communication, in fact, the study of the socio-political uses of language can become fundamental. And such study should be, as it was originally, apologetic: standing as the dimension of justification, in and out of joint, in and out of the norm.