L.I. PETRAZHITSKY, PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE: JUDGMENTS OF CONTEMPORARIES
The article analyzes the assessments of L.I. Petrazhitsky's creativity, given by his colleagues in 1900-1919 and researchers of our time, in order to identify the main reasons for the change in the attitude of researchers to L.I. Petrazhitsky and to determine the prospects for referring to his works of humanities scientists. As units of analysis, the following are used: the nature of the content of the main critical statements; the topics covered related to the psychological content of Petrazhitsky's theoretical propositions; the nature of the «psychological» argumentation of the author of the work, the psychological arguments given by the author; general attitude to psychology as a science, its knowledge, assessment of the position in the system of sciences. As a result of the analysis of the opinions of the authors of more than 40 publications on the work of L.I. Petrazhitsky, conclusions are drawn that Petrazhitsky's contemporaries see and criticize the heterogeneity and groundlessness of theoretical propositions in his work, reproach him for departing from logic and the foundations of science, for illegally mixing law with ethics and psychology. Our contemporaries evaluate the scale and find new connections of his theories with psychological, sociological, cultural fields of humanitarianism. The main reasons for the change in the attitude of researchers to Petrazhitsky are the scale and humanistic orientation of Petrazhitsky's ideas that have emerged over the past century. For L.I. Petrazhitsky the politics of law is the main way of improving man and humanity, and the value of his works lies in his interest in man, in the «primordial» eclectic unity of the humanitarian approach on the basis of which his ideas were born. The prospects of applying to his work of humanities scholars are determined both by the relevance of the problems addressed by Petrazhitsky, and by the differentiation and integration of humanitarian knowledge, including psychology and the science of law.