----- Original Message ----- From: "k hanly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
But then with respect to coporations contracts are themselves often between what are persons only qua legal fictions, or between them and individuals rather than anything that could be explained in terms of contracts between individual persons. I have no idea what you mean when you say that a legal fiction is an oxymoron. ======================= I mean the law *makes* it -the corporation- real, with real causal powers in the political economy. The law is not a representation of a set of contractual relations prior to it, that is, it's not primarily a descriptive endeavor, but a performative one. John Austin [the 20th cent. guy "How to do Things with Words] and John Searle are great on that issue. Ian
