Discursive analytical strategies: understanding Foucault, Koselleck, Laclau, Luhmann

Discursive analytical strategies
Contents
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
	From method to analytical strategy
	About the book
	My own path to the analytical-strategic question
One: The discourse analysis of Michel Foucault
	Archaeological discourse analysis
	Genealogy
	Self-technology analysis
	Dispositive analysis
	Conclusion
Two: Reinhart Koselleck’s history of concepts
	Origins of the history of concepts
	The notion of concept
	Semantic field analysis and counter-concepts
	Five fundamental prelinguistic distinctions
	Conclusion
Three: The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau
	Discourse
	The floating surplus of meaning and undecidability
	Hegemonic analysis and the battle of fixating
	Discourse analysis versus deconstruction
	Conclusion
Four: Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory
	Systems theory as second-order observation
	The concept of meaning
	The concept of communication
	Preliminary summary
	Form analysis
	Systems analysis
	Differentiation analysis
	Media analysis
	Semantic analysis
	Connections between the different analytics
	Conclusion
Five: A hall of mirrors or a pool of analytical strategies
	Conditions of comparisons of discourse theories and systems theories
	System and discourse aligned: guiding distinction
	Conditioning and point of observation
	Combining analytical strategies
	Future questions
References
Appendix A: Examples of other analytical strategies
Appendix B: Further reading
INDEX