Ideological distortions in the historiography of political and legal doctrines: nature and typology

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The article examines the essence and typology of ideological distortions in the historiography of political and legal doctrines. Based on the achievements of the philosophy of science, the author proceeds from the impossibility of completely eliminating the ideological factor in historical and legal studies. At the same time, the task of the history of political and legal doctrines is to identify and neutralize ideological distortions. A distinction is made between ideological distortions, errors and scientific fraud. Attention is drawn to the high degree of ideologisation of the Russian legal doctrine. The typology of ideological distortions includes: Eurocentrism, legal idealism, political and legal chauvinism and ethnonationalism, methodological monism, postmodernist passion for the rejection of the search for truth, etc. Finally, the study proposes a methodology for identifying ideological distortions.

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Anton A. Vasiliev

Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: anton_vasiliev@mail.ru

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher of the Sector of Philosophy of Law, History and Theory of State and Law

Russian Federation, 10 Znamenka str., 119019 Moscow.

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