The early 20th-century Russo-Polish legal thinker Leon Petrażycki (1867–1931) developed a comprehensive social psychology of law. Because only a fraction of his work is available in English, Petrażycki is today little known and seldom discussed in the Anglophone countries.
This volume aims to remedy this deficit by introducing Petrażycki’s life and work specifically to an English-speaking audience. It is intended as a reappraisal of some of his views in the context of current advancements. This collection of 12 chapters produced by a panel of international scholars from various social science fields will be useful to a new generation of students formulating their own theories and research on socio-legal behavior.
Leon Petrażycki: Law, Emotions, Society will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology of law, socio-legal studies, and philosophy of law
Author(s): Edoardo Fittipaldi, A. Javier Treviño
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 302
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: The Legal Consciousness of Leon Petrażycki
Introduction
A Life
The Sociopolitical Context
Intellectual and Cultural Developments
The Work
After Petrazycki
Organization of the Volume
Acknowledgments
Part I The Man and His Context
1 A Brief Biography of Leon Petrażycki
Introduction
Of Noble Birth
Education
Politics and Revolution
Poland
Notes
References
2 Leon Petrażycki and Georges Gurvitch: Normative Facts as a Litmus Test for Political Convictions
Introduction
Petrażycki’s and Gurvitch’s Political Propensities and the 1917 Revolution
Petrażycki’s Conception of Normative Facts
Gurvitch’s Conception of Normative Facts
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 Leon Petrażycki and Adam Podgórecki: On the Reception of the Psychological Theory of Law in Poland Under Communism
Introduction
Petrazycki’s Legacy in Podgórecki’s Work
The Concept of Law
The Origin and Development of Law
Legal Policy
Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
4 Science, Art, and the Pluralist Legacy of Leon Petrażycki
Introduction
Science
Art
The Complex Pluralist Legacy
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II Main Concepts and Issues
5 Leon Petrażycki’s Unfinished Project: Sociology as a Rigorous Science
Petrażycki’s Sociology and Husserl’s Philosophy
Historical Remarks On an Unaccomplished Project
Petrażycki and the Analytical-Phenomenological Tradition
Sociology’s Logico-Methodological Foundations and Petrażycki’s Unity of Scientific Knowledge
The Principle of Adequacy
The Theorem of N + 1 Theories
Petrażycki’s New Classification of the Sciences
The Object of Sociology According to Petrażycki
Leon Petrażycki Vsv Eugen Ehrlich
Realism and Nominalism as Methods for Understanding Social Reality
Leon Petrażycki and Max Weber
Notes
References
6 Leon Petrażycki’s Reconstruction of Normative Experiences
What Is a Norm?
Norm-Creating Acts vs. Normative Experiences
Normative Facts
Deontic Propositions
Normative Experiences and Deontic Noemata
Are Projective Illusions Unavoidable?
Cognizing Other’s Deontic Noemata and Absolute Legal Idiotism
Deontic Noesis vs. Cognitive Noesis of a Deontic Noema
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Petrażycki’s Puzzle of Jural Emotions: Bridging the Psychological Theory of Law With Modern Social and Psychological
Petrażycki’s Ethical Emotions
Petrażycki’s Puzzle of Jural Emotions
Jural Emotions and Aggression
Psychoanalysis and Petrażyckianism
Petrażycki’s Theory of Law and Lonnie Athens’s Criminology
Conclusion
Notes
References
8 Leon Petrażycki’s Two Dimensions of Law
Introduction
The Reduction of Law and the Quest for an Extra-Legal Concept of Law
Political Processes
Normative Facts
Social Interactions
Psychical Experiences
An Adequate Theory of Law
The Distinction Between Official and Unofficial Law
The Distinction Between Positive and Intuitive Law
Notes
References
Part III Legacies to the Social Sciences
9 A Communicative Approach to Leon Petrażycki’s Theory of Law
Leon Petrażycki and the St. Petersburg School of Legal Philosophy
Whither the Psychological Theory of Law?
Law and Phenomenological Sociology
Communication as a Link Between the Individual and the Social
Communicative Bases of Law
Legal Communication
Notes
References
10 Petrażycki’s Theoretical Contributions to International Law
Introduction
Definition of International Law in the Psychological Theory of Law and Its Implications
The Legal-Dogmatic Dimension
Three Sciences and Concepts of International Law
Conclusion
Notes
References
11 Leon Petrażycki’s Views On Religion
Introduction
Petrażycki’s Criticism of Utilitarianism and His Social Ideal
Petrażycki’s Ontology of Law
Petrażycki’s Definition of Religion and Its Connection to Law
Religious and Legal Psyche
Conclusions
Notes
References
12 Petrażycki’s Legacy to the Sociology of Language in the Context of Slavic Studies
Introduction
Definitions of Concepts
Positive vs. Intuitive Normativity and Petrażycki’s Normative Facts
Normative Facts in the Standardization of Slavic Languages
Language Policy vs. Language Dogmatism in the Standardization of Slavic Minority Languages
Conclusion
Notes
References
Glossary
Note
Index
