Pavlyshyn O. Semiotics of law as a methodological paradigm of the latest philosophical-legal discourse

In the first thesis chapter the theoretical-methodological preconditions of semiotic-legal researches formation are described. It is grounded that the diversity of semiotic-legal ideas regarded as the original achievements of the later epochs thinkers, in particular, as for the nature and essence of the sign and presence of clear parallels between the universal sign organization of human being and the symbolic reality of political-legal events, originates to the antique and medieval philosophic inheritance. The modern semiotic researches are grounded to have a pragmatic character and the East-European semiotic tradition is proved to be concentrated on the cultural and art-criticism aspects of the sign systems researches. The heuristic potential of the semiotic approach to a social-cultural scope research and the development insufficiency of the semiotics of law constitutional basis are demonstrated.