Marcin Matczak's Empire of Text: Analysis and Critique of the Project

This article provides an in-depth analysis of Marcin Matczak's work, "Empire of the Text," which defies clear-cut legal theory classification. The author deconstructs the concept of interpretive holism, identifying its roots in sophisticated positivism and drawing inspiration from Habermas's discourse theory and Ricoeur's hermeneutics. The analysis includes a confrontation of Matczak's project with Niklas Luhmann's systemic vision and practical applications of the model in areas such as digital services taxation and civil partnerships. A critical part of the study focuses on the risk of excessive transfer of power to judges and the potential threat to legal predictability. The text sheds new light on the relationship between the letter of the law and the postulated world, constituting an important contribution to the debate on contemporary constitutional axiology and the role of judges' subjectivity in the interpretive process.