Il progetto culturale e scientifico dei Quaderni fiorentini per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno nelle Pagine introduttive dei primi trent'anni

Abstract

The Cultural and Academic Programme of Quaderni Fiorentini per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno as Conveyed by its in First Thirty Years - The Quaderni Fiorentini per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno (Florentine Notebooks on History of Modern Legal Thinking) were instrumental in innovating international legal studies. The Introductory Pages written in course of publication’s first thirty years have recently been compiled in single volume by their founder and editor (P. Grossi, Trent’anni di pagine introduttive. Quaderni Fiorentini 1972-2001, Giuffre, Milan 2009, pp. XXVIII-252). As you read them, you can retrace stages in cultural and academic programme that found history of modern legal thinking to be fertile meeting ground for historians, sociologists and philosophers of law and scholars of positive law, all interested in unity of legal science and of its aperture to other human sciences. In Paolo Grossi’s thinking, reference to historical nature of legal knowledge was put to use as tool for verifying a host of certainties, observing the eclipse of host of dogmas, doubting a host of claimed conquests, opportunity to establish relationship between the lawyer (and his methods) and society (and its future). This is an approach that focuses on topics of legal method and of system of law sources at work in transformation of dynamics of legal orders, an approach so incisive as to be of real help in understanding present.