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H ans K elsen's Concept of Normative Imputation
Author(s) -
Langford Peter,
Bryan Ian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/raju.12004
Subject(s) - disengagement theory , imputation (statistics) , normative , allegiance , philosophy , politics , theology , epistemology , political science , law , mathematics , statistics , missing data , medicine , gerontology
This article compares and contrasts Hans Kelsen's concept of normative imputation, in the L ecture C ourse of 1926, with the concepts of peripheral and central imputation, in T he P ure T heory of L aw of 1934. In this process, a wider and more significant distinction is revealed within the development of H ans K elsen's theory of positive law. This distinction represents a shift in K elsen's philosophical allegiance from the N eo‐ K antianism of W indelband to that of C ohen. This, in turn, reflects a broader disengagement of T he P ure T heory of L aw from the more direct connection with a political project of a civitas maxima envisaged by the L ecture C ourse.