The Legal Science in the System of Interdisciplinary Connections

Abstract

The title of the article and its theme is inspired by the work The Absent Structure written by an Italian historian, cultural studies scholar and semiotician Humberto Eco (M., 2004). It is difficult to identify the main sphere of interest of the author of many texts devoted to a variety of topics - from cooking to describing the daily life of individual communities of different historical epochs - in terms of his scientific specialization. At the same time, his texts are recognizable by some elusive features determined by the existence of some common, though invisible, structures of understanding and perception of reality - its internal concept or attitude. The logic and content of the objects under study are arranged with regard to this phenomenon. What relation does this have to the understanding of the logic of developing traditional and modern knowledge systems, including legal knowledge? In my opinion, the most direct one. Legal knowledge is an integral part of legal reality. Its movement is determined by its own processes of self-organization that are very far from divisions into the disciplines and professions, into which it was transferred by scientific and educational communities of specific epochs and cultures providing production and distribution of the knowledge based on the interests of its historical consumers Jurisprudence as a system of knowledge and a system of qualifications awarded in accordance with scientific degrees follows different principles Manifestations of this distinction reveal themselves through an internal capacity of the legal knowledge to develop a variety of combinations of concepts and definitions at the intersection or beyond formal disciplinary systems The development of interdisciplinary bodies of legal knowledge, such as sociology and anthropology of law, legal psychology, cultural and historical jurisprudence, etc., possible and conceivable combinations of objects, methods and languages of description and interpretation of phenomena of law and of the State, reflects and captures this process. It is interdisciplinary bodies of legal knowledge that, unlike authorized differentiation of systems of knowledge and professions, give a real picture of development, functioning and transition of social and legal institutions from one historical state to another responding to the cultural meanings and demands of a particular society and time The paper provided was an impudent attempt to respond to criticism against theoretical jurisprudence that had been expressed by Professor V. V. Lazarev in a number of articles during 2013-2015. 44