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CONTEMPORARY LEGAL PHILOSOPHISING
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PHILOSOPHIAE IURIS
Edited by
CSABAVARGA
Series Editor
Emeritus Professor CSABAVARGA
<http://drcsabavarga.wordpress.com>
Founder of the
Institute for Legal Philosophy,
Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary
H–1088 Budapest,Szentkirályi u.28 (visit)
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CONTEMPORARY LEGAL
PHILOSOPHISING
Schmitt, Kelsen, Lukács, Hart, & Law and Literature,
with Marxism’s Dark Legacy in Central Europe
(On Teaching Legal Philosophy in Appendix)
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SABA ARGA
SZENT ISTVÁN TÁRSULAT
Az Apostoli Szentszék Könyvkiadója
Budapest,2013
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Cover:
Allegoric Justice (1625) on the Mural of St.James’Church
at Lôcse/Leutschau/Leutsovia [now Levocˇa,Slovakia]
(photo by the author in 2008)
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CONTENTS
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Philosophy of Law in Central & Eastern Europe:
A Sketch of History[1999] 11
Philosophising on Law in the Turmoil of Communist Takeover
in Hungary(Two Portraits,Interwar and Postwar:
JULIUSMOÓR&ISTVÁNLOSONCZY) [2001–2002] 23
JULIUSMOÓR[23] ISTVÁNLOSONCZY[29]
On the Survival of ILMARTAMMELO’s Letter and Manuscript
Addressed to Professor MOÓR[2009] 41
Professional Distress and Scarcity:ALEXANDERHORVÁTH
and the Legacy of Natural Law in Hungary [2005] 45
Hungarian Legal Philosophy in the 20thCentury [2011] 51
I.THE PRE-WAR PERIOD [52] 1. Bódog (Felix) Somló (1871–1920) [52]
II.THEINTER-WARPERIOD[55] 2.Gyula (Julius) Moór (1888–1950) [54]
3. Barna Horváth (1896–1973) [55] 4. József Szabó (1909–1992) [57]
5.István Bibó (1911–1979) [58] 6.Tibor Vas (1911–1983) [59] 7.István
Losonczy (1918–1980) [60] III.THEPOST-WARPERIOD(COMMUNISM)[661]
8. Imre Szabó (1912–1991) [62] 9.Vilmos Peschka (1929–2006) [63]
10. Kálmán Kulcsár (1928–2010) [65] IV. CONTEMPORARY TRENDS AND
PERSPECTIVES[66] 11.Csaba Varga (b.1941) [66] 12.András Sajó (b.1949)
[69] 13.Béla Pokol (b.1950) [70] V.OURUNDERSTANDINGOFTHELAW
TODAY[71]
AN IMPOSED LEGACY
Looking back [1999] 75
1.On Ideologies and MARXism in general [75] 2.Life of an Intellectual in
Communism [79] 3.On MARXism and its Socialist Cultivation in Particu-
lar [82] 4.Legal Philosophising [87] 4.1.Approaches to Law[87] 4.2.Ar-
riving at a Legal Ontology[91] 5.Conclusion [94]
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Legal Philosophy of the MARXism of Socialism:
Hungarian Overview in an International Perspective [2003] 95
I. DEVELOPMENT AND BALANCE OF MARXIST PHILOSOPHISING ON LAW IN
HUNGARY[96] 1.Preliminaries (until 1948) [96] 2.STALINism (from the
Soviet Occupation on) [98] a) Liquidation of the »Residues«[98] b) Soviet-
type Uniformisation [Gleichschaltung][99] c) Denial of the Past,with a Dual
Effect[99] d) »Socialist Legality«,Drawn from the Bolshevik Memories of the
Progressive Past of Western Europe[103] e) Search for the Germs of Scholarly
Evolution [103] 3.Institutionalisation Accompanied by Relaxation (from
the 1960s) [104] a) Epigonism Becoming the Scholarly Ideal [104] b) STALIN-
ism in a Critical Self-perspective[105] c) Disciples Diversified Launching their
own Trends[107] d) Comparatism[110] e) (Re)discovery of the Western Legal
Philosophy as a Competitor[112] f) A Leading Mediatory Role within the »So-
cialist World Order« [114] 4.Disintegration (in the 1980s) [115] a) Attempt
at Laying New Foundations for MARXism with Epigonism Exhausted [115]
b) Competitive Trends Becoming Exclusive [115] c) Western Legal Philosophy
Acknowledged as a Fellow-traveller within the Socialist Orbit Proper [116]
d) Hungarian Legal Theory Transforming into a National Corpus[118] e) The
Practical Promotion of Some Balance[119] 5.End-game of Legal Theorising
as Substitute for a State Religion (in the 1990s) [120] II.MARXISTLEGAL
PHILOSOPHISING INAN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE [122] Ad 1:To the
Preliminaries [122] Ad 2:To STALINism [124] Ad 3:To Institutionalisati-
on Accompanied by Relaxation [125] a) Late Separation from VYSHINSKY’s
Theory [125] b) From Ideological Self-closure to an Apparently Scholarly
Openness [127] c) From Political Ideology to Genuine Scholarship [130]
d) International Recognition of Socialist Jurisprudence as an Independent Trend
[135] e) Together with Western Trends [137] Ad 4:To Disintegration [139]
a) Loss of Attraction as Mere Epigonism [139] b) Exclusivity of Competing Di-
rections[139] c) Fellowship with »Bourgeois« Trends[140] d) An own Trend,
Internationally Recognised[141] e) A yet Progressive Role[143] Ad 5:To the
Present state [000] III.A TEMPORARYBALANCE[145]
Autonomy and Instrumentality of Law in a Superstructural
Perspective [1986] 151
1.The Strange Fate of Concepts [151] I.A RELATIONALCATEGORY[154]
2.Basisand Superstructure:The GenuineMeaning [154] 3.Exerting So-
cial Influence as a Conceptual Minimum [156] 4. Relationships within
the Prevailing Totality [158] 5. Attempts at Interpretation in Hungary
[159] 6.The Lukácsian Stand [162] 7. Lukács’s Recognitions [168]
8.Some Criticism [169] II.THE LAW’S UNDERSTANDING [171] 9.Law
Interpreted as Superstructure [171] 10.Conclusions Drawn for the Law’s
Understanding [173]
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Legal Theory in Transition (A Preface from Hungary) [2000] 177
Development of Theoretical Legal Thought in Hungary
at the Turn of the Millennium [2006] 187
1. International Environment [188] 2.The Situation in Hungary [190]
3.Outlook I:The Historico-comparative Study of Legal Cultures and of the
Legal Mind [203] 4.Outlook II:The Paradigmatic Enigma of the Transition
to Rule of Law [207] 5.Incongruity in Practice [213] 6.Perspectives [214]
TWENTIETH CENTURY CONTEMPORANEITY
Change of Paradigms in Legal Reconstruction:CARLSCHMITT
and the Temptation to Finally Reach a Synthesis [2002] 219
1.Dangers of Intellectualism [219] 2.SCHMITTin Facts [221] 3.SCHMITT
and KELSEN[222] 4.On Bordering Conditions [226] 5.With KELSENin
Transubstantiation [230] 6.Polarisation as the Path of Theoretical Deve-
lopment [232]
KELSENian Documents in Hungary:Chapters on Contacts,
Including the Genesis of Autobiography[2006] 235
1.Preludes [235] 2.The Search for MOÓR’s Bequeath [235] 3.MOÓR’s
Collegiality [238] 4.BIBÓas a Disciple Translating [241]
The »HART-phenomenon« [2002] 245
I.THE HART-MIRACLE [246] 1.The Scene of Britain at the Time [247]
2.The Personal Career [250] 3.The Opus’Career [252] 4.Verbal Socio-
logism [255] 5.Growing into the British Pattern [259] II.THE HART-
PHENOMENON[260] 6.Origination of a Strange Orthodoxy [261] 7.Mas-
tering Periods of the 20thCentury [263] 8.Raising the Issue of Reception
in Hungary [265]
Literature? A Substitute for Legal Philosophy? [2007] 269
1.The Enigma of Law and its Study [269] 2.“Law and Literature”[271]
3.Varieties of “Law and Literature”[247] 4.The German Study of Artistic
Representations [287] 5.Some Literary Reconsiderations [285] 6.Con-
clusion [287]
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APPENDIX
The Philosophy of Teaching Legal Philosophy in Hungary [2007] 291
I.WHYANDHOWTOPHILOSOPHISEINLAW? [291] II.THESTATEOFTEACH-
INGLEGALPHILOSOPHY[294] III.THEPHILOSOPHYOFTEACHINGLEGAL
PHILOSOPHY[296] IV.PROGRAMMEATTHECATHOLICUNIVERSITYOFHUN-
GARY[300] 1.Graduate Studies [300] a) Basic Subjects[301] b) Facultative
Seminars[305] c) Closing Subjects[309] d) Written Memoranda and the The-
sis[312] 2.Postgraduate Studies [313] 3.Conclusion [317] V.PERSPEC-
TIVES[318]
Index of Subjects 321
Index of Normative Materials 328
Index of Names 329
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
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