Editor's introduction

Jan Woleński

1-13

The "general science of law"

main approaches and their history

Kazimierz Opałek

15-30

The peculiarities of the study of law and the question of integration

Kazimierz Opałek

31-48

The complexity of law and of the methods of its study

Kazimierz Opałek

49-62

State and law

an attempt at integration of the juristic with the sociological approach

Kazimierz Opałek

63-76

The problem of the validity of law

Kazimierz Opałek

77-89

The rule of law and natural law

Kazimierz Opałek

91-98

Internal and external integration of the study of law

Kazimierz Opałek

99-120

Law and politics in time and space

Kazimierz Opałek

121-135

Present status of legal philosophy

Kazimierz Opałek

137-152

The concept of "positive law"

Kazimierz Opałek

153-167

Philosophy of law and social philosophy

Kazimierz Opałek

169-180

Some problems of the theory of norms

Kazimierz Opałek

181-200

The problem of "directive meaning"

Kazimierz Opałek

201-215

The problem of the existence of the norm

Kazimierz Opałek

217-231

On the logical-semantic structure of directives

Kazimierz Opałek

233-254

Norm and conduct, the problem of the "fulfilment" of the norm

Kazimierz Opałek

255-261

Directives, optatives, and value statements

Kazimierz Opałek

263-293

Directive discourse

Kazimierz Opałek

295-310

"Doing things with words" and the law

Kazimierz Opałek

311-321

Directives, norms, and performatives

Kazimierz Opałek

323-344