The Four Doors to Panjuridi(ci)sm and the Question About the Limits of Law: Returning to a Rarely Frequented Topos
摘要
This essay endeavours to propose an interpretive grid distinguishing different contemporary manifestations of panjuridi(ci)sm. The reflexive challenge is in fact to understand the progressive displacement of Law, losing its status as an autonomously self-subsistent rationality pattern in favour of a voracious omni-presence. The grid in question distinguishes four plausible doors to panjuridi(ci)sm, as well as the opposing pathways which these unmistakably different doors open: the first one privileging instrumentalism (and hyper-specialization), the second celebrating plurality and difference (if not the deconstructive overcoming of comparability), the third defending a communitarian particularism (and this one as a passive coercive objectivation of conventional or positive morality), the fourth transforming the detersive effects of globalization (and uniformity) into new opportunities to claim universality (if not an a-cultural or culturally neutral universalism). The reconstitution of this grid opens up in turn the possibility of a reactive answer, this one emphasizing that the possibility of successfully considering the problem of limits depends today on the rejection of each and every one of the pathways which those four doors lead to.