Resumo
The article analyzes the philosophical and historical ideas of N. Ya. Danilevsky and their significance for the development of cognitive capabilities of the Philosophy of Law. The leitmotif of the research is the idea that the theory of cultural and historical types developed by N. Ya. Danilevsky remains the property of only philosophers and historians, but is undeservedly overlooked by lawyers. The main reason for this situation is the complexity of the historical and philosophical reconstruction of his theory of cultural and historical types in the context of the analysis of the state and law. In addition, the article draws attention to the role of a one-sided Eurocentric understanding of the philosophy of the history of political and legal thought and the history of state and law. The ideas of N. Ya. Danilevsky are accompanied by significant distortions and falsifications in Western literature, primarily American and German. The methodology of the research is based on the use of traditional methods of analyzing political and legal doctrines, first of all their structural division, accompanied by a conditional separation of the logical and conceptual (theoretical) part and the concrete historical part.