ABSTRACT
This view of the law as a kind of fundamental, world constituting ideology raises many questions, which we may postpone until the concluding chapter. It is difficult to carry the reasoning through consistendy, especially the idea that the law constitutes a separate conceptual domain or sphere. The early appliers of neo-Kantian ideas to the law were sometimes tripped up by these difficulties, and Weber, it is sometimes claimed, was tripped up by the applications of these ideas to "social science." But Weber, as we shall see, avoided some of these problems, and avoiding them was crucial to his strategy as a whole. A brief introduction to the basic ideas of neo-Rantianism is necessary to understand how Weber understood his own project.
