Table of contents

1. For a broad dimension of legal experience - 2. Methods of knowledge in general: two theories and two phases - 3. Mental structures indicated how do they behave today? - Digression on topicality: from the Universal to the Global - 5. Back to historical precedents, to the series of events - 6. Two processes in the formation of secular legal mentality - 7. Between ecclesiastical-imperial universality and nationalism - 8. At the origins of legal realism: nationality versus universality - 9. Why is practicalism Italian and not scientific pragmatism? - 10. The answer lies in the comparison of French and Italian history - 11. French, English, German religiosity is source of national unity - 12. Everywhere the dialectic of groups is what reveals the motives of law - 13. Is the drift of law as a merely practical science a problem? - 14. Cultural autarky of jurists reproduces ancient corporatism