The reviewer claims that Rafał Mańko's monograph 'Towards a critical philosophy of adjudication. The political, ethics, legitimacy’ (Łódź, 2018) should be connected with the so called essentialist wing of postmodernism, which deals with the issues of traditional philosophy under the veil of cognitive skepticism. The review attempts to convince a reader that the author's authoritative metaphysical statements translate into too radical program in the field of adjudication. The reviewer do not deny the necessity to 'open' the traditional legal domain to external arguments, however, he claim that the proposal presented in this regard by Rafał Mańko is too far-reaching.