1st Edition
Leon Petrażycki Law, Emotions, Society
The early 20th-century Russo-Polish legal thinker Leon Petrażycki (1867–1931) developed a comprehensive social psychology of law. Because only a fraction of his work is available in English, Petrażycki is today little known and seldom discussed in the Anglophone countries.
This volume aims to remedy this deficit by introducing Petrażycki’s life and work specifically to an English-speaking audience. It is intended as a reappraisal of some of his views in the context of current advancements. This collection of 12 chapters produced by a panel of international scholars from various social science fields will be useful to a new generation of students formulating their own theories and research on socio-legal behavior.
Leon Petrażycki: Law, Emotions, Society will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology of law, socio-legal studies, and philosophy of law
Introduction A. Javier Treviño. The Legal Consciousness of Leon Petrażycki Foreword Roger Cotterrell Part 1. The Man and His Context 1. Leon Petrazycki: A Brief Biography Aleksejs Petrazickis 2. Leon Petrażycki and Georges Gurvitch: Normative Facts as a Litmus Test for Political Convictions Mikhail Antonov 3. Leon Petrażycki and Adam Podgórecki: On the Reception of the Psychological Theory of Law in Poland under Communism Krzysztof Motyka 4. Science, Art, and the Pluralist Legacy of Leon Petrażycki Carol Weisbrod Part 2: Main Concepts and Issues 5. Leon Petrażycki’s Unfinished Project: Sociology as a Rigorous Science Elena V. Timoshina 6. Leon Petrażycki’s Reconstruction of Normative Experiences Lorenzo Passerini Glazel 7. Petrażycki’s Puzzle of Jural Emotions: Bridging the Psychological Theory of Law with Modern Social and Psychological Sciences Edoardo Fittipaldi 8. Leon Petrażycki’s Two Dimensions of Law Jacek Maria Kurczewski Part 3: Legacies to the Social Sciences 9. A Communicative Approach to Leon Petrażycki's Theory of Law Andrey V. Polyakov 10. Petrazycki’s Theoretical Contributions to International Law Oleksandr Merezhko 11. Leon Petrażycki’s Views on Religion Piotr Szymaniec 12. Petrażycki's Legacy to the Sociology of Language in the Context of Slavic Studies Dalibor Sokolović Glossary Select Bibliography
Biography
Edoardo Fittipaldi is Professor of Sociology of Law at the State University of Milan. He is the author and editor of several books, essays, and articles in English, Italian, and Russian.
A. Javier Treviño is Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College. He is the author and editor of several books including The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies (Routledge, 2022).
"Leon Petrażycki remains a key figure in the scholarly study of law, even though his work is still not sufficiently known despite its acknowledged role in the development of the sociology of law. Not only for historical reasons but for scholarly objectives as well, Editors Edoardo Fittipaldi and A. Javier Treviño are to be commended for assembling this valuable collection of contributions on the work of Petrażycki. Written by an admirably international group of scholars, the assembled chapters provide much food for thought for those of us working to develop scientific perspectives of the place of law in society, most clearly by discussing the work of Petrażycki against the sociological realism to which he sought to develop an alternative."
Mathieu Deflem, Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina"This well-edited collection finally allows the English-speaking reader to begin to take the measure of one of the most original thinkers in the philosophy of law, sociology of law, and psychology of law. For those prepared to think through Leon Petrażycki’s ideas, studies of legal consciousness will never be the same."
David Nelken, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law, King’s College, London"This collection offers a valuable scholarly introduction to Leon Petrażzycki, an early 20th century legal thinker who engaged creatively with sociology, psychology and philosophy in advancing a comprehensive theory of law. The contributors, many from Russia and Eastern Europe, explain his intellectual influences and the social-political context. Critical essays consider his relevance for the law and society movement."
Max Travers, Associate Professor in Sociology and Criminology, University of Tasmania
