Kistyakovsky B. A.

Kistyakovsky B. A. «Social Sciences and Law: Essays on the Methodology of Social Sciences and General Theory of Law.» — Moscow: Publication of M. and S. Sabashnikov, 1916. — IV, 704 p.

A lifetime edition. The main theoretical work of the outstanding Russian philosopher, legal scholar and sociologist, which collects his best articles from previous years. The book is conceived as a methodological study showing the ways and means of obtaining scientific sociological knowledge. The author examines society, law, the state and culture through the prism of methodological pluralism, criticizing dogmatic jurisprudence and legal nihilism.

A fundamental work that is considered the highest achievement of neo-Kantian sociology of law in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Bogdan (Fyodor) Alexandrovich Kistyakovsky (1868–1920) was a Russian philosopher, legal scholar and sociologist, one of the authors of the famous collection "Vekhi" (the article "In Defense of Law"), and an academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1919). A consistent representative of neo-Kantianism, he developed the methodology of social sciences and the general theory of law, striving to develop a rigorous science of society.