Open AccessLEGAL NIHILISM: THE PROBLEM OF UNDERSTANDING
Author(s) -
Galina M. Lanovaya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in law studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2500-428X
pISSN - 2409-5087
DOI - 10.29039/2409-5087-2020-8-3-11-15
Subject(s) - nihilism , epistemology , interpretation (philosophy) , philosophy , linguistics
The article analyzes the reasons why researchers fail to Express the essence of legal nihilism clearly and accurately. The article deals with such problems of interpretation of legal nihilism as filling the gaps in scientific knowledge about it with myths, rejecting conceptual analysis in favor of conceptual analysis, ignoring the multilayered concept of «legal nihilism» and its cultural conditionality, and verbalization of this concept by means of the philosophical and legal language, rather than the language of legal science. While emphasizing that these problems can be eliminated, the author emphasizes that along with them there is a fundamentally unsolvable problem: legal nihilism is an idea that is difficult to relate to empirically known reality, and this calls into question the very possibility of considering the formation of an understanding of legal nihilism as a scientific, rather than a philosophical problem.