ISBN:
9781137015297
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Luhmann, Niklas,-1927-1998
;
Sociology
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Social systems
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book, for the first time, brings Niklas Luhmann's work into dialogue with other theoretical positions, including Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, gender studies, bioethics, translation, ANT, eco-theories and complexity theory.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Luhmann Encountered -- Part I Radical Paradoxes -- 1 Contingency, Reciprocity, the Other, and the Other in the Other Luhmann-Lacan, an Encounter -- 2 Luhmann's Ontology -- 3 The Autopoietic Fold: Critical Autopoiesis between Luhmann and Deleuze -- Part II Radical Materiality -- 4 Gendering Luhmann: The Paradoxical Simultaneity of Gender Equality and Inequality -- 5 Luhmann, All Too Luhmann: Nietzsche, Luhmann and the Human -- 6 Only Connect: Luhmann and Bioethics -- 7 Spatiality, Imitation, Immunization: Luhmann and Sloterdijk on the Social -- Part III Radical Semantics -- 8 Limits of Interpretation, Closure of Communication. Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann Observing Texts -- 9 Organizations, Institutions and Semantics: Systems Theory Meets Institutionalism -- 10 Luhmann and Koselleck: Conceptual History and the Diagnostics of the Present -- Part IV Radical Politics -- 11 Luhmann and Derrida: Immunology and Autopoiesis -- 12 In the Multiverse What Is Real? Luhmann, Complexity and ANT -- 13 Luhmann and Marx: Social Theory and Social Freedom -- Afterword -- Index.
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