This Element discusses the coherence of Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law and how it stands and falls with his adherence to normativistic (neo-)Kantian epistemology, tracing the rise of Kelsen's normativism together with his adoption of neo-Kantianism and its decline once the neo-Kantian epistemology is given up around 1940.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. The Genesis of Normativism in Philosophy; 3. Hans Kelsen's Normativism; 4. Summary; References.