Reception of philosophical ideas in the paradigm of legal nihilism

Sirin Sergey Anatolyevich

The article examines in detail the philosophical ideas concerning legal nihilism as a negative social phenomenon and a deviant form of social consciousness. Definitions of the main approaches to understanding legal nihilism are given and three levels of legal nihilism are identified: General social, nihilism of individual social structures, legal nihilism of the individual.

Keywords:legal nihilism, social causes, society, state, public consciousness, reception, law