Paper's abstract

Jean Clam, Things, Exchange, Media. A study on the stages of a dematerialization of communication
The study begins with an attempt to clarify the juridical concept of the res. It starts from the ancient ius reale and the German " Sachenrecht ", and introduces to the Kantian categories of " Sachen " and possession (the intentional correlate of the first term). The Kantian theory contrasts with the representation of " fluidity " of things, usually found in the protojuridical exchange as described in the socioanthropology of the gift. Bringing the improbability of the categories of the ius rerum to sight, this contrast introduces to the generalized media theory of T. Parsons. The trajectory of the study is that of a dematerialization of objective reality that attains its climax in an utterly semiologized culture.

Key Words : thing, exchange, dematerialisation, Germany, Kant, Parsons, communication
t. 43, 1999 : p. 97-137

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