Three Paradigms of Juridical Knowledge: to Anniversary of Professor A. V. Polyakov

Abstract

Article is dedicated to the 60-year anniversary of the professor of the chair of theory and law history and state of St. Petersburg State University, doctor of juridical sciences Andrey Vasilyevich Polyakov. In the article are analyzed some basic ideas of the communicative theory of law, creator of which is A. V. Polyakov. In this case the communicative theory of law by A. V. Polyakov it is considered in context of the processes, which characterize the development of the juridical science, by which, as for any other sciences, is inherent the sequential change of the paradigms of knowledge. In the article are separated three such paradigms, namely pre-classical, classical and postclassical. The author assumes that ideas of A. V. Polyakov, who is the best-known representative of the post-classical theory of law in Russia, they stimulate the change of the paradigms of lawful knowledge and thus contribute to overcoming crisis phenomena in the juridical science.