ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that Boaventura de Sousa Santos combines both tendencies, that halo Calvino can be interpreted as exemplifying imaginative post-modernism without being committed to anti-rationalist positions. Susan Haack convincingly steers a path between the two by robust debunking of the anti-rationalist version while allowing space for other strands, with some of which author probably more in sympathy than Susan Haack is. The author suggests that Santos's views on many issues concerning globalisation and legal theory are quite close to mine, especially in emphasising the complexity, fluidity and elusiveness of legal phenomena, but that these views owe nothing to irrationalist postmodernism. The author explores more positively respective, and largely convergent, views on globalisation, legal pluralism, mapping, and an alternative agenda for general jurisprudence, suggesting that mine is more modest and more cautious, but is not necessarily incompatible with some aspects of Santos's bolder vision.
