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Contents

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Philosophy of Law in Central & Eastern Europe: A Sketch of History [1999]
Philosophising on Law in the Turmoil of Communist Takeover in Hungary (Two Portraits, Interwar and Postwar: Julius Moór & István Losonczy) [2001-2002]
On the Survival of Ilmar Tammelo's Letter and Manuscript Addressed to Professor Moór [2009]
Professional Distress and Scarcity: Alexander Horváth and the Legacy of Natural Law in Hungary [2005]
Hungarian Legal Philosophy in the 20th Century [2011]
  I. The Pre-War Period
  II. The Inter-War Period
  III. The Post-War Period (Communism)
  IV. Contemporary Trends and Perspectives
  V. Our Understanding of the Law Today

AN IMPOSED LEGACY
Looking back [1999]
  1. On Ideologies and Marxism in general
  2. Life of an Intellectual in Communism
  3. On MARXism and its Socialist Cultivation in Particular
  4. Legal Philosophising
  5. Conclusion
Legal Philosophy of the Marxism of Socialism: Hungarian Overview in an International Perspective [2003]
  I. Development and Balance of Marxist Philosophising on Law in Hungary
  II. Marxist Legal Philosophising in an International Perspective
  III. A Temporary Balance
Autonomy and Instrumentality of Law in a Superstructural Perspective [1986]
  I. A Relational Category
  II. The Law's Understanding
Legal Theory in Transition (A Preface from Hungary) [2000]
Development of Theoretical Legal Thought in Hungary at the Turn of the Millennium [2006]
  1. International Environment
  2. The Situation in Hungary
  3. Outlook I: The Historico-comparative Study of Legal Cultures and of the Legal Mind
  4. Outlook II: The Paradigmatic Enigma of the Transition to Rule of Law
  5. Incongruity in Practice
  6. Perspectives

TWENTIETH CENTURY CONTEMPORANEITY
Change of Paradigms in Legal Reconstruction: Carl Schmitt and the Temptation to Finally Reach a Synthesis [2002]
  1. Dangers of Intellectualism
  2. Schmitt in Facts
  3. Schmitt and Kelsen
  4. On Bordering Conditions
  5. With Kelsen in Transubstantiation
  6. Polarisation as the Path of Theoretical Development
Kelsenian Documents in Hungary: Chapters on Contacts, Including the Genesis of Autobiography [2006]
  1. Preludes
  2. The Search for Moór's Bequeath
  3. Moór's Collegiality
  4. Bibó as a Disciple Translating
The "Hart-phenomenon" [2002]
  I. The Hart-Miracle
  II. The Hart-Phenomenon
Literature? A Substitute for Legal Philosophy? [2007]
  1. The Enigma of Law and its Study
  2. "Law and Literature"
  3. Varieties of "Law and Literature"
  4. The German Study of Artistic Representations
  5. Some Literary Reconsiderations
  6. Conclusion

APPENDIX
The Philosophy of Teaching Legal Philosophy in Hungary [2007]
  I. Why and how to Philosophise in Law?
  II. The State of Teaching Legal Philosophy
  III. The Philosophy of Teaching Legal Philosophy
  IV. Programme at the Catholic University of Hungary
  V. Perspectives
Index of Subjects
Index of Normative Materials
Index of Names

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Blurb

A collection of papers relating Contemporary Legal Philosophising originally published between 1986 and 2011 on the HISTORICAL BACKGROUND treating topics like 'Philosophy of Law in Central & Eastern Europe: A Sketch of History' [1999] / 'Philosophising on Law in the Turmoil of Communist Takeover in Hungary (Two Portraits, Interwar and Postwar: JULIUS MOÓR & ISTVÁN LOSONCZY)' [2001-2002] / 'Professional Distress and Scarcity: ALEXANDER HORVÁTH and the Legacy of Natural Law in Hungary' [2005] / 'Hungarian Legal Philosophy in the 20th Century' [2011], on its IMPOSED LEGACY with 'Looking back' [1999] / 'Legal Philosophy of the MARXism of Socialism: Hungarian Overview in an International Perspective' [2003] / 'Autonomy and Instrumentality of Law in a Superstructural Perspective' [1986] / 'Legal Theory in Transition (A Preface from Hungary)' [2000] / 'Development of Theoretical Legal Thought in Hungary at the Turn of the Millennium' [2006], on TWENTIETH CENTURY CONTEMPORANEITY dealing with problems such as 'Change of Paradigms in Legal Reconstruction: CARL SCHMITT and the Temptation to Finally Reach a Synthesis' [2002] / 'KELSENian Documents in Hungary: Chapters on Contacts, Including the Genesis of Autobiography' [2006] / 'The "HART-phenomenon"' [2002] / 'Literature? A Substitute for Legal Philosophy?' [2007], with a paper in ANNEX on 'The Philosophy of Teaching Legal Philosophy in Hungary' [2007]

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