| Summary: | The case-study overviews personal reminiscences in summation of what and in which way influenced, limited and, in fact, hindered self-reflection and its scholarly cultivation under Communism. It also outlines the lee-ways following which description, theorisation, and philosophical synthesis of all the elements of the former could be undertaken all the above notwithstanding. On the field of law and of its theoretical investigation, and in an apparently paradoxical manner, just the philosophical and macro-sociological approach to law as experienced with all its deformations (denaturation and degeneration) there and then could lead to a genuinely universal scientific formulation—deeper and broader as compared to the one calibrated to average “normal” manifestations exclusively, as usual in the western civilisation—and just thanks to the reconsideration of MARXism, by taking its latent ontological potential seriously. Or, the case-study concludes in the realisation that the relationship between a political regime and the state of the Humanities as an aggregate of various kinds of self-reflection in it is rather complex indeed. The ways in which ideas are generated are both conditioned by the former and self-conditioning. The variety of feasible responses to hic et nunc challenges is almost limitless, so there is high place for personal features, partly in function of purely intellectual capacity and partly drawing from moral virtues, to prevail while working out those paths and frameworks, as well as channels and methodologies, in and within the womb of which such responses are formulated. Moreover, limiting conditions offer a chance for a live experience of life situations which are seldom experienced in actual human practice, and also of testing human stands, quite as if a testile strength test were to take in some laboratory. Accordingly, in the final analysis individual achievements are comparable among others with and without special regard to the underlying political regime—even if, en masse, an unfavourable environment may forecast mediocre output as an average.
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