Theory of the State and Law: Between an Apology and Criticism of Conceptual Foundations

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the modern state of development of jurisprudence, and it defines the objective of new substantive and conceptual foundations of the scientific discipline. The study of the issue in question implies a wide cultural and interdisciplinary context of theoretical and practical rethinking of the subject and structure of the juridical science. A cultural-historical perspective in understanding law as a linguistic and cognitive reality, which is at the same time figurative, symbolic and conceptual, constitutes, in our opinion, the direction and approach to its research that facilitates understanding of actual meanings and values of law in various civilizational (discursive) practices of social intercourse. The analysis of changes in the system of legal knowledge per se or in its subject, structure and the language of jurisprudence in the sociocultural context of certain historical epochs of the juridical science development encourages determination of the fundamental role of the juridical science in the formation and development of the legal system as a whole.