Between legal order and the state of nature


	Law and Politics Reference: Ruvinskiy R.Z. Between legal order and the state of nature // Law and Politics. 2016. № 2. P. 272-280. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=52594 Ruvinskiy R.Z. Between legal order and the state of nature Abstract: This article presents an attempt to re-actualize the concept of “state of nature” used in the work of the modern era thinkers. The article is divided into a brief introduction and two parts. The first part addresses the political-legal concept of the “state of nature”, its origin and semantic content. A special accent is made on the connection between the notion of “state of nature” and “the war of all against all”. The author assesses the possibility of using said concepts to describe the present and the future situation in the world. The second part is dedicated to the description of the crisis state of the social, political, and legal orders of the early XXI century. The notion of “global crisis” of the modern society is being introduced, giving characteristics and description to the key causes of this state. The author analyzes the peculiarities of the society of the modern global crisis, noting the trend towards decomposition and failure of the previous, customary political-legal forms and institutions. For the first time in the Russian theoretical-legal science the modern state of the international and national orders is compared to seemingly outdated concept of the “state of nature”. In the context of the research issues at hand, the views of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau of the state of nature of the society is being examined from a different perspective. Keywords: sovereignty, law, instability, crisis, state, war, anarchy, Rousseau, Hobbes, state of exception This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Grover R. A. The New State of Nature and the New Terrorism // Public Affairs Quarterly. – 2002. – Vol. 16, No.2. – P. 125-141. 2. Shtraus L. Estestvennoe pravo i istoriya. – M.: Vodolei Publishers, 2007. 3. Zuckert M. P. Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. – Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. 4. Ruvinskii R. Z. Dilemmy gosudarstvennosti i novaya voina vsekh protiv vsekh // Politiya. – 2013. – № 2 (69). – S. 107-118. 5. Gobbs T. O grazhdanine // Gobbs T. Sochineniya v 2 t. ¬¬– T. 1. – M.: Mysl', 1989. 6. Gobbs T. Leviafan, ili Materiya, forma i vlast' gosudarstva tserkovnogo i grazhdanskogo // Gobbs T. Sochineniya v 2 t. – T. 2. – M.: Mysl', 1991. 7. Russo Zh.-Zh. Rassuzhdenie o proiskhozhdenii i osnovaniyakh neravenstva mezhdu lyud'mi // Russo Zh.-Zh. Ob Obshchestvennom dogovore: Traktaty. – M.: TERRA–Knizhnyi klub; KANON-press-Ts, 2000. 8. Slovar' inostrannykh slov. – M.: Russkii yazyk, 1988. 9. Marks K. Nishcheta filosofii. – M.: Mir knigi, 2007. 10. Rezolyutsiya General'noi Assamblei OON ot 24 oktyabrya 2005 goda № A/RES/60/1 // URL: http://www.un.org/ru/documents/ods.asp?m=A/RES/60/1 11. Agamben Dzh. Homo sacer. Chrezvychainoe polozhenie. – M.: Izdatel'stvo «Evropa», 2011. 12. Shmitt K. Diktatura. Ot istokov sovremennoi idei suvereniteta do proletarskoi klassovoi bor'by. – SPb.: Nauka, 2005 13. Semchenkov A.S. Sistemnaya destabilizatsiya sovremennykh gosudarstv // Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya. - 2015. - 2. - C. 175 - 183. DOI: 10.7256/2305-560X.2015.2.11570. 14. Demidov A.V. Ot «myagkoi sily» k «upravlyaemomu khaosu» // Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya. - 2014. - 2. - C. 230 - 236. DOI: 10.7256/2305-560X.2014.2.10355. 15. Borodinov E.N. Blizhnesrochnyi prognoz po razvitiyu politicheskoi situatsii v Ukraine // Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya. - 2014. - 3. - C. 415 - 424. DOI: 10.7256/2305-560X.2014.3.11693.

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