Language:
German
Pages:
Online-Ressource, 37 S.
Series Statement:
Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft Bd. 4
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Nation
;
Gesellschaft
;
Systemtheorie
Abstract:
Abstract: "Actual macro-theories of nationalism lack a systematic integration into a metatheory. The paper proposes to use systems theory as a conceptual tool for this requirement by examining two of its branches. First, an attempt is made to determine a systematic location of the notion of nation in Niklas Luhmann's framework. Luhmann himself did not, until now, include the problem of nationalism into his concept. The author, therefore, proposes to embed the notion of nation into Luhmann's concept either by arguing that it refers to the scope of a political system or by arguing that it refers to the self-description of a society. It follows that any theory of the nation should be regarded as a »theory of reflection« (Reflexionstheorie) of a politically defined society. But, as a concept of identification cannot be formulated without referring to the individual, a purely systemic approach only describes half of the phenomenon. Therefore, second, the author takes up Peter M. Hejl's approach
Note:
Veröffentlichungsversion
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-267863
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-267863
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