Cseppben a tenger, tengerben a csepp
Ocean in the drop, drop in the ocean

Barna Horváth, the sociologist of law

Summary/Abstract: Barna Horváth’s (1896–1973) synoptic social- and legal philosophy, that coexamines the neo-Kantian epistemology and methodology together with the pragmatic-empirical (legal) perspective motivated by the Anglo-Saxon tradition, is one of the undisputedly most unique theory of the Hungarian bourgeois intellectual history, however, it is judged most controversially by the international and domestic jurisprudence. The scientist is experiencing and interpreting the social- and intellectual historical situation of his age and his own personality within it, and also the thinking through of this as “embodied paradox”. This study aims to reveal how Horváth, with the help of the synoptic bridging of the high tension of the ’hiatus irrationalis’ that is between necessity and freedom, and fact and value, establishes the concept of society, and the various objectivations, and principles of its progress, and furthermore, he lays the grounds of the structure of sociology that analyses it.

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