Legal Sociological thought Against the Challenges of Globalization
Legal Sociological thought Against the Challenges of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author tries to recapitulate the echo of globalization in legal and sociological literature, concluding that legal philosophers are largely neutral regarding the phenomenon of terrorism and terror, warning in their studies of the widespread political and diplomatic practice of turning a deaf ear by states when it comes to the notorious norms of international public law and international relations. The author points out that even the philosophers of the law are note prone of any predictions regarding the apparent violation of international normative norms, not trying to anticipate the fate of law in the circumstances of the absolute power. The sociological theoretical thought, relying on its weight on the postulates of “interpretative sociology”, as well as ethnomethodology as one of the off-springs of this school of thought, also circumvents a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of violence as a postmodern, almost implicit, and therefore a “legitimate” form of modern communication. In this sense, the author sets out the theoretical points of Jean Baudrillard, the French sociologist, philosopher and political scientist, who, making the essential difference between “globalization”, on the one hand, and “mondialization”, on the other, tried to demystify the etiopathological reasons for constituting violence as a specific feature of globalization. The causes of terrorism are seen by Baudrillard in the destruction of universal values that were dissolved in the Mondial, losing any commitment from the perspective of the idea of humanity. The author concludes that the only thing left for human nature is to transform, in the sense of self-knowledge and insight into the actual character of social forces, if it wants to remain free and meaningful, to the extent of the complexity, cleverness and elusiveness as totalitarian consciousness is transformed.

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