Modéliser les interactions juridiques par l'outil informatique : étude de cas en droit de l'environnement (original) (raw)

The fate of Konstantin Megrelidze's thought is as tragic as it is paradoxical-the thinker's opus magnum was published decades after it was written, because of political censorship, the author himself died in exile, and the second book, written in a Soviet lager, has been irrevocably lost. The thought itself is present in modern social sciences, but this is a presence of something fogotten. This presence of the forgotten gets Megrelidze's name mentioned in the Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory once (Delanty 2006, p.159) 1 ; the third edition of his major work was republished in the Russian language in 2007 2 ; and there are some works published in Georgian, Russian and Western European languages about his thought 3. But his work has not yet been translated into any other language, which would make it available to an international audience (it exists only in Russian and Georgian); the number of persons in Western academia familiar with his work is limited to the specialists of the history of Soviet epistemology; and the place he deserves in the development of social and philosophical thought has not yet been determined. But the paradox extends farther. Not only was Megrelidze's Major Problems of the Sociology of Thought, written in 1936, published only in 1965; not only did it haveto undergo the process of self-censorship, which changed the initial title of the book from Social Phenomenology of Thought,which the in the 1930s was no longer acceptable, but the first edition of the book, published after the "thaw" initiated by Khrushchev's 1956 anti-Stalin speech, was itself heavily censored and adapted to the changed realities of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. References to Stalin were taken out, but, what is of more importance for the argument of the work, long discussions of, quotations from, and reference to, the work of Nicholas Marr and his theories, were also deleted. Thus, the readers of Megrelidze's work of the last half a century have been familiar with it only in a truncated and abridged form, since the full edition of the book still awaits publication, lingering in the archives. This is a deplorable situation for many reasons. In the history of Soviet social sciences and humanities, Megrelidze provides an indispensable body The article was prepared within the framework of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation grant (contract № 31/85).