This paper expounds some critical reflections on Pierre Legrand's recent account of James Gordley's and James Whitman's comparative methodologies. Pushing his unconventional writing style to the limits and labelling Gordley's ‘positivist’ and Whitman's ‘cultural’ comparative law, Legrand's piece appears to be taking the first step towards a new, more sensitive phase for the comparative study of law and legal cultures. The paper argues that, contrary to what might be first thought, Legrand's ‘sensitive epistemology’ cannot act as a gateway to cultural otherness. This is because it is wholly in line with the constructivist objectification of life that characterises the study and practice of law both within and outside the comparative-law dimension.

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比较法中的经验与知识：关于皮埃尔·罗格朗“敏感认识论”的批判性笔记

本文阐述了对皮埃尔·罗格朗最近对詹姆斯·戈德利和詹姆斯·惠特曼的比较方法论的一些批判性思考。将他非传统的写作风格推向极限，并为戈德利的“实证主义”和惠特曼的“文化”比较法贴上标签，罗格朗的作品似乎朝着法律和法律文化比较研究的一个新的、更敏感的阶段迈出了第一步。该论文认为，与最初的想法相反，罗格朗的“敏感认识论”不能充当通向文化差异性的门户。这是因为它完全符合比较法维度内外法律研究和实践的特征的建构主义生命客观化。