The Jurisprudence of Traditions and Innovations of the Postmodern Era in Search of Self

Innovative jurisprudence is an open perspective for the conceptual and instrumental development of legal science in the postmodern era or the era of shifts in legal worldviews and styles of legal thinking and the accompanying socio-economic and political-legal transformations. The formation and development of a new legal disciplinary complex is associated with the definition of subjects and methods of research and the development of competing analytical languages for describing and explaining changes in legal reality. All three structural components of the discipline are represented within the boundaries of a conceptual cluster: traditions and innovations, legal development and the modern world. Traditions and innovations are eternal categories of available practices of social existence with invariant and mobile historical forms and contents. What is a tradition for one cultural formation can be considered an innovation for another. It is an expression of accumulated experience in development management, mixing and intersections of legal communications, cultural memory and heritage passed down from generation to generation. The development of institutions and processes, ideas and doctrines, and languages of jurisprudence has three vectors and strategies of its manifestations and representations: evolutionary, involutional, and paradigmatic transitions and shifts. Modernity is a characteristic of the movement of legal systems in historical time and space and both the processes and residual states of the epochs before modern and modernity, as well as the legal formations of postmodernity that are still unknown in their consequences. The institutional challenges of modern legal development depend to a certain extent on the ability of legal science to find constructive analytical and instrumental solutions. Innovative jurisprudence is a possible cultural and conceptual response to the demands of the new reality.

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