Ut pictura ius: notas sobre alquimia, emblemas e hermenêutica radical
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This paper is a critical-speculative fiction, a thought experiment that tries to open alternatives for legal interpretation, today reduced to mere technique. To this purpose, I imagine that current Law developed itself not from science, but from alchemy (section I). Such fiction finds support in the work of Andrea Alciato, an Italian humanist and jurist who created the emblems, which would soon become one of the most important means of expression of alchemy (section II). The emblem – a kind of amalgam between text and image – does not require, unlike the symbol, a univocal interpretation, but rather opens itself to a creative, impure, non-hierarchical and infinite hermeneutic (section III). Thus, using the philosophical archaeological method enunciated by Giorgio Agamben and based on the paradigmatic examples of some alchemical emblems (section IV), I propose a radical hermeneutics which, rejecting the monopoly of the Law interpretation by the Judiciary, promotes a legal-interpretative experience that is both democratic (section V) and an-archic (section VI).
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