21/05/2024 12:15 - 13:15

HALL: LA PIRA - ROOM 3

Proponent: Pacillo V.

Chair: Pacillo V.

Speaker: D'Arienzo M., Ducros F.R., Ferrari D., Pacillo V.

The fundamental purpose of this book is to investigate the genetic moment of the concept of secularism and to examine the role of non-legal intellectual debate in the process of formation and development of this concept, with particular reference to a specific cultural context - the French one - in a determined period of time - the analysis spans from 1850 to 2023 - in order to verify whether and how literary components have contributed to determining its meaning and playing a role in its evolution in the French national legal system and in the process of overflowing into other legal systems in which it has been a protagonist.
The underlying idea of this investigation is that a legal tradition is not composed only of a set of laws and regulations, but also of a set of deeply rooted attitudes and beliefs, which are influenced by history and intellectual debate: this perspective places a legal system as an integral part of the culture to which it belongs, and also underlines the importance of the socio-cultural context in understanding the definition, nature, and function of legal concepts within a given normative system.