The post-anarchist critique of the law: epistemological possibilities of a non-essentialist approach to the socio-juridical phenomenon

Abstract

Despite the variety of stances that offer, the anarchist critique of the law has reproduced the cultural myths (of the social imaginary and the official culture) that confer ontological existence to the state. This position has produced criticism against law. Post-Anarchism, however, uses the insights of postmodern philosophy to replace these starting points, both in the formulation of its political proposal and in its approach to law. This article reconstructs the political, ethical, and methodological side of this proposal. Based on this reconstruction, I argue that the post-anarchist perspective allows overcoming the ideological critique of classical anarchism against law and, instead, provides methodological and epistemological elements to formulate a radical critique of the plurality of legal systems beyond their own essential identities.