Interdyscyplinarność i integracja zewnętrzna nauk prawnych w świetle postmodernistycznej krytyki
Interdisciplinarity and the external integration of jurisprudence in the light of postmodern critique

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the critique of the concept of “external integration of jurisprudence”, which has been widely discussed in polish jurisprudence in the past decades. I base my critique on an analysis of the concept put forward in Polish literature by Jerzy Wróblewski and Kazimierz Opałek. I also consider the postmodern critique of the views on interdisciplinarity held by classical jurisprudence. The first part of the article consists of: a) general remarks on some doubts and ambiguites concerning understanding of “postmodernism” and common misunderstandings of this term and b) some remarks on the relations between law and postmodernism. In the second part of the article, I provide a sketch reconstruction of the basic traits of postmodernism, especially those characteristics, which determine the postmodern attitude towards interdisciplinarity. In the third, main part of my article I show how the positivist, modern concept of “external integration of jurisprudence” is incompatibile with postmodern views on science, research, knowledge, epistemology and disciplinarity. I provide an in-depth critique of the presumptions and presuppositions underlying this concept. Finally, I ask: “Quo vadis, interdisciplinarity’’? What about the future of interdisciplinary research in the field of law, when the postmodern methodological storm has swept away the old instruments? Here I introduce the concept of “postdisciplinarity”.

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