Legal Scholarship and the Political: In Search of a New Paradigm

Opis

The book seeks to address comprehensively the relationship between legal scholarship and the notion of the political understood as the fundamental antagonism at the foundation of any human society, present in the deep structure of legal theory/philosophy of law and doctrinal legal scholarship (a concept developed in contemporary philosophy of politics by, inter alia, Chantal Mouffe). Specifically, the authors examine the crisis of the idea of an apolitical legal science and possible ways out of that crisis.

The need for this book is obvious. First of all, there is a lack of comprehensive studies regarding the implementation of the Enlightenment idea of the apolitical character of science in the fi eld of legal scholarship. Secondly, the research envisaged within the framework of this book is specific not only as regards to its scope, but also – or above all – as regards to its methodological approach.

The authors take into account the value of the idea of an apolitical legal scholars