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Legal Sciences and the Problem of the Political: The Perspective of Critical Jurisprudence

Dr Rafał Mańko

University of Amsterdam

Abstract: The growing interest in the connections between legal phenomena and the political (das Politische, le politique) justifies an analysis of the problem of the relationship of legal sciences towards the political. The article focuses on two juridical sub-disciplines: analytical legal theory and legal dogmatics, and the analysis is conducted from the perspective of critical jurisprudence, a juristic application of critical theory. Towards this end, first the concept of ‘the political’ is defined, along the lines of Chantal Mouffe, as a dimension of antagonism, which lies at the foundation of any society. The political, understood in this way, must be differentiated both from ‘politics’ and from ‘policies’. As far as analytical legal theory is concerned, the article claims that it is programmatically (yet tacitly) political, as it affirms the juridical form as such, abstracting from its concrete content. As far as legal dogmatics is concerned, the article claims, following Sawa Frydman, that the dogmatician, despite his declared apoliticality, when performing a doctrinal interpretation of law, makes in fact decisions which are not only interpretive, but also political ones, setting subsequent stages in the antagonistic struggles within society.

Keywords: legal science, the political, antagonism, analytical legal theory, legal dogmatics, critical legal theory

Language: Polish

Received: 13.06.2018
Accepted: 04.09.2018

Published: Number 3(18)/2018, pp. 38-50.

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: analytical legal theory, antagonism, critical legal theory, legal dogmatics, legal science, Rafał Mańko, the political

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