ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The process of placing this conventional understanding into question is initiated by utilizing the notion of the juridico-political as the basis upon which the relationship between Max Weber and Hans Kelsen is reflected upon. The first path of reflection concerns the connection between Kelsen and Weber and the two significant schools of academic philosophy of Marburg and Heidelberg Neo-Kantianism. Kelsen confines the influence of Cohen to the first part of his philosophical system, Logik der reinen Erkenntnis, and summarily rejects the subsequent work, in which the question of law is overtly thematized, as an uninteresting and outmoded theory of natural law. The subsequent designation and reconstruction of Weber's project, as a social science, indicates the break with an understanding in which it is entirely encompassed by the philosophical background of Neo-Kantianism.
