Luhmann Observed

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Luhmann Encountered

   1. Introduction: Luhmann Encountered

      • Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Anders la Cour

      Pages 1-15

3. Radical Paradoxes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Contingency, Reciprocity, the Other, and the Other in the Other Luhmann–Lacan, an Encounter

      • Jean Clam

      Pages 19-37

   3. Luhmann’s Ontology

      • William Rasch

      Pages 38-59

   4. The Autopoietic Fold: Critical Autopoiesis between Luhmann and Deleuze

      • Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

      Pages 60-81

4. Radical Materiality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Gendering Luhmann: The Paradoxical Simultaneity of Gender Equality and Inequality

      • Christine Weinbach

      Pages 85-107

   3. Luhmann, All Too Luhmann: Nietzsche, Luhmann and the Human

      • Todd Cesaratto

      Pages 108-134

   4. Only Connect: Luhmann and Bioethics

      • Sharon Persaud

      Pages 135-149

   5. Spatiality, Imitation, Immunization: Luhmann and Sloterdijk on the Social

      • Christian Borch

      Pages 150-168

5. Radical Semantics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Limits of Interpretation, Closure of Communication: Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann Observing Texts

      • Elena Esposito

      Pages 171-184

   3. Organizations, Institutions and Semantics: Systems Theory Meets Institutionalism

      • Anders la Cour, Holger Højlund

      Pages 185-202

   4. Luhmann and Koselleck: Conceptual History and the Diagnostics of the Present

      • Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

      Pages 203-224

6. Radical Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Luhmann and Derrida: Immunology and Autopoiesis

      • Willis Santiago, Guerra Filho, Pablo Ghetti

      Pages 227-242

   3. In the Multiverse What Is Real? Luhmann, Complexity and ANT

      • Barbara Mauthe, Thomas E. Webb

      Pages 243-262

   4. Luhmann and Marx: Social Theory and Social Freedom

      • Chris Thornhill

      Pages 263-283

7. Afterword

   1. Afterword

      • Anders la Cour, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

      Pages 284-288

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.

• bioethics
• gender
• gender studies
• Institution
• liberty
• Luhmann
• Niklas Luhmann
• organization
• politics
• social theory
• systems theory

• Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, UK

  Anders Cour

• University of Westminster, UK

  Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Niels Aakerstroem Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Christian Borch, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Todd Cesaratto, Miami University of Ohio, USA Jean Clam, Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique, France Elena Esposito, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy Willis Santiago Guerra Filho, Federal University of the State Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Holger Højlund, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Barbara Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK Sharon Persaud, Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, London, UK William Rasch, Indiana University, USA Chris Thornhill, Glasgow University, UK Thomas Webb, Lancaster University, UK Christine Weinbach, University of Potsdam, Germany

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