The Limits of Juristic Power from the Perspective of the Polish Sociological Tradition
In: Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences Ser. v.10
Cover -- Copyright information -- Foreword to the English edition -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The goal of the work and the research strategy -- 2 The topography of the limits of juristic power -- 3 Politico-legal culture -- 4 Legal text -- 5 Juristic culture -- 6 The axiological sense of the individual -- Part One The realization of the law, according to the Petra ż yckian tradition -- 1 The ontology of law according to Leon Petra ż ycki -- 1.1 Introductory remarks -- 1.1.1 "The unrecognized father of the sociology of law" -- 1.1.2 Petra ż ycki today -- 1.1.3 Ways of reading -- 1.2 Philosophical background -- 1.2.1 The importance of philosophical optics -- 1.2.2 Leon Petra ż ycki's theory in the light of other currents of jurisprudence -- 1.2.3 The difficulty with identifying the philosophical assumptions adopted in Leon Petra ż ycki's theory -- 1.2.4 Leon Petra ż ycki's theory and philosophical positivism -- 1.2.5 Leon Petra ż ycki's theory and the phenomenology of Franz Brentano -- 1.2.6 Other paths -- 1.2.7 Summary -- 1.3 The individual-projectional aspect of law -- 1.3.1 The ontological complexity of law -- 1.3.2 The characteristics of the emotions -- 1.3.3 The characteristics of ethical emotions -- 1.3.4 The characteristics of legal emotions -- 1.3.5 The characteristics of "official-legal" emotions -- 1.4 The textual aspect of law -- 1.4.1 Towards the text - two layers of law -- 1.4.2 The object of interpretation -- 1.4.3 The problem of the meaning of legal text -- 1.4.4 Theoretical and practical knowledge -- 1.5 The social-projectional aspect of law -- 1.5.1 The unifying function of jurisprudence -- 1.5.2 The ontological status of the socio-projectional dimension of law -- 1.6 The political aspect of law -- 1.6.1 The axiological dimension of legal policy -- 1.6.2 The instrumental dimension of legal policy.