Denise versus Jean-Jacques: homonymies, homologies and tectonic faults between psychological contract and social contract

Rémi Jardat ()
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Rémi Jardat: ISTEC - Institut supérieur des Sciences, Techniques et Economie Commerciales - ISTEC

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Abstract: Making any comparison between Jean-Jacques' and Denise's thoughts of contract may appear as a foolish project. When more carefully looked at, their works show disturbing similarities. Firstly conditions of existence of what they study - the contract- are quite the same, although implemented into different contexts. Does all this mean that, finally, Jean-Jacques and Denise develop, with an interval of two centuries, two native languages and 6000 km, quite structurally same fundamental anthropologies? A deeper inquiry into both structures of thought unveils us irreducible differences below previously raised similarities. Jean-Jacques's and Denise's grammars of contracts are separated by a sort of tectonic fault that we can describe through Greimas' Saussurian Semiotics. As a conclusion we may envisage crossing the tectonic fault by prolonging Denise's work thanks to Jean-Jacques concept of sovereignty and by shifting from descriptive to quite normative purpose.

Date: 2011-01-31
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