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OF A CONSUMER'S RIGHTS: THE UNACCOUNTABILITY OF THE SUBJECT

Abstract

The article observes that the appeal to legal instances is the subject's attempt to evade the dissatisfaction with social life. Trivial issues which used to follow their own way apart from legal interventions, are present in the legal area now. Next, the relationship now settled with Law is the cause for contemporary subjects to suppress the dimension of loss present in their own constitution. Responding to any claim, Law starts to ratify conducts that go against the social bond. It then supports that this process is given by the change in contractual relations since Modernity, which culminates in the emptying of the dimension of the social pact, heading toward the simple agreement. It concludes that nowadays Law takes some features which are closer to those of a consumer rights, which the subject uses to ensure one well-being, in the same way as one does with objects available in the market.

Keywords:
Law; subject; social bond

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