نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
Contemporary Iranian society is constituted by intersecting cultural horizons, heterogeneous normative commitments, and coexisting worlds of meaning, creating a persistent tension between the generalising logic of legal order and the irreducible plurality of social life. Daryush Shayegan’s concepts of patchwork identity and nomadic thought offer a distinctive conceptual apparatus for theorising this condition without reducing plurality to normative relativism. Yet Iranian legal scholarship lacks a systematic account of its implications for adjudication. This article therefore asks how Shayegan’s thought may be reconstructed to theorise the judicial role within Iran’s plural social order. Employing interdisciplinary socio-legal inquiry, conceptual analysis, and theoretical inference, it examines Shayegan’s writings alongside legal materials and selected judicial practice. It argues that adjudication can mediate the law–society divide without either subordinating legal normativity to social facticity or insulating law from social transformation. Through context-sensitive and purposive interpretation, judges render social plurality juridically cognisable, translating socially situated claims into legally justifiable reasons while mediating between “is” and “ought,” individual rights and the common good, and liberty and security. The article’s principal contribution is the concept of the judge as a “boundary actor”: an institutionally constrained mediator, reconstructed from patchwork identity and nomadic thought, whose interpretive function enables controlled permeability between legal normativity and social reality while preserving law’s autonomy, coherence, and justificatory discipline.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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