Law
Andrea Bindig
Humanitäres Völkerrecht als symbolische Form
Zur Normativität humanitären Völkerrechts im Spiegel der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen Ernst Cassirers
[International Humanitarian Law as a Symbolic Form. On the Normativity of International Humanitarian Law as Reflected in Ernst Cassirer´s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.]
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Published in German.
Armed conflicts such as the Yugoslav Wars are grave examples of the limits of international humanitarian law. Andrea Bindig focuses on Ernst Cassirer´s philosophical concept of symbolic form to depict the partly self-contradictory meanings of normativity which shape our path to civilization.