Legal categories. Methodological aspects of the development of a system of categories of law theory

In conditions of developed socialism, science is a serious social force. Therefore, it itself becomes an object of special study. The issues of scientific self -knowledge are formed in a special direction in the development of the methodology of science. The task of comprehending the content and movement of one’s own knowledge faces legal science.
In the book proposed by the reader, the subject of consideration is not the law itself, but the form and structure of knowledge about it, expressed by the theory of law. The purpose and content of the book is the justification and concretization of the hypothesis of the logical structure of the theory of law, which is determined by the system of its basic concepts - legal categories.
In the book, a significant place is given to the analysis of methodological premises of the study of legal categories, the main of these premises is the Marxist-Leninist dialectical logic. It also discusses the main categorical dependencies and logical connections of legal categories, and the general contours of the conceptual system of the theory of law are established.
The book is designed for scientists - lawyers, philosophers, teachers, graduate students and students of law universities. It will be useful for everyone who shows interest in the problems of the methodology of legal science