Email this article The Concept of A-Legality by G. Lindahl: Philosophical and Legal Foundations and Prospects
- Authors: Savenkov A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 8 (2025)
- Pages: 19-27
- Section: Legal, political, philosophical and religious thought
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/1026-9452/article/view/308082
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225080022
- ID: 308082
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Abstract
The article examines the interpretation of legality from the point of view of the original approach developed by the Dutch and English scientist G. Lindahl. The ideas of legal positivism, phenomenology, and structural and functional analysis are based on the ideas of legality in line with this approach. The study reveals the nature, content, main positions and place of Lindahl’s concept of a-legality in modern legal thought. The main characteristics of the concepts of a-legality as a way of searching for “blind spots” are shown, in particular, in the context of the analysis of law and order and behavioral patterns based on the cognitive capabilities of sociology. The heuristic and cognitive potential of the arguments formulated by Lindahl on the possibility of distinguishing legality, illegality and a-legality is evaluated. Considerations are given regarding the philosophical and legal foundations and prospects for using the cognitive potential of the Lindahl system of legal representations. It is demonstrated that Lindahl’s concept of a-legality contains several levels of analysis of the problems of law and order – formal and genetic (normative). The agonistic theories of democracy are analyzed as a basis for constructing the key characteristics and meanings of the concept of a-legality. The limitations of the Lindahl concept are revealed.
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A. A. Savenkov
Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Email: artem.199417@yandex.ru
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