Grimaces et lèvres pincées : remarques sur la ritualisation pénale (Pascal, Wittgenstein) (Grimaces and Pursed Lips: Remarks on the judicial ritualization –Pascal, Wittgenstein)

• Main Author: Kevin David Ladd
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2018-09-01
• Series: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
• Subjects: Philosophie; philosophie du droit; anthropologie; ritualisation judiciaire; Blaise Pascal; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Philosophy; philosophy of law; anthropology; judicial ritualization; Filosofía; filosofía del derecho; antropología; ritualización judicial
• Online Access: http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/890

Cet article vise &agrave; clarifier le recours &agrave; une famille de m&eacute;taphores qui entoure fr&eacute;quemment le proc&egrave;s (ritualisation, th&eacute;&acirc;tralisation, mise en sc&egrave;ne, c&eacute;r&eacute;monie de type religieux), et d&eacute;fend la th&egrave;se que la notion de ritualisation judiciaire exprime avant tout la louable intention d'accorder &agrave; la justice internationale p&eacute;nale un temps et des occasions sans finalit&eacute; pr&eacute;con&ccedil;ue, mais qui permettent la manifestation d'une diversit&eacute; d'&eacute;motions. Il prend principalement appui sur la comparaison des Pens&eacute;es et des <em>Lettres provinciales</em> de Pascal d'une part, sur les <em>Remarques sur Le Rameau d'or de Frazer</em> et les <em>Le&ccedil;ons sur la croyance religieuse </em>de Wittgenstein d'autre part. C'est en s'effor&ccedil;ant de rendre raison de notre tendance &agrave; inscrire le proc&egrave;s p&eacute;nal dans diff&eacute;rents contextes, qu'il pose la question du genre de connaissance qui nous conduit &agrave; former cette id&eacute;e de <em>ritualisation judiciaire.</em><br /><br /> This paper aims at clarifying our use of a metaphor family often surrounding the trial (ritualization, dramatization, performance, religious-type ceremony), and supports the idea that the notion of a judicial ritualization expresses the praiseworthy intention to allow time and occasions to the penal international justice &ndash; such occasions having no predetermined goal, however, though they make it possible for a variety of emotions to manifest themselves. This article is grounded on a comparison between Pascal's <em>Pens&eacute;es </em>(Thoughts) and<em> Lettres provinciales </em>(Provincial letters) on the one hand, and Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's Golden bough and his Lessons on religious belief on the other. In an effort to explain our tendency to put the trial in various contexts, it interrogates the kind of knowledge that leads us to form the very idea of a <em>judicial ritualization.<br /></em><br /> Este art&iacute;culo pretende arrojar luz sobre el uso de una familia de met&aacute;foras que rodean el juicio (ritualizaci&oacute;n, dramatizaci&oacute;n, realizaci&oacute;n, ceremonia cuasi-religiosa), y propone la idea de que la noci&oacute;n de una ritualizaci&oacute;n judicial expresa la encomiable intenci&oacute;n de dar tiempo y oportunidad a la justicia penal internacional -pese a que dichas oportunidades no tengan objetivo cierto, aunque permitan la expresi&oacute;n de un abanico de emociones. El art&iacute;culo se basa en una comparaci&oacute;n entre las obras <em>Pensamientos </em>y <em>Lettres provinciales</em> (Cartas provinciales), de Blaise Pascal, por un lado, y <em>Observaciones a La rama dorada de Frazer</em> y <em>Lecciones y conversaciones sobre est&eacute;tica, psicolog&iacute;a y creencia religiosa</em>, de Ludwig Wittgenstein, por el otro. En un intento de explicar nuestra tendencia a poner el juicio en diferentes contextos, se pregunta por el tipo de conocimiento que nos lleva a formarnos la idea misma de una <em>ritualizaci&oacute;n judicial.</em><br /><br /> <strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN:</strong> <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=3110770" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=3110770</a>