Luhmann Observed: Radical Theoretical Encounters

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Luhmann Encountered....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Contingency, Reciprocity, the Other, and the Other in the Other Luhmann–Lacan, an Encounter....Pages 19-37
Luhmann’s Ontology....Pages 38-59
The Autopoietic Fold: Critical Autopoiesis between Luhmann and Deleuze....Pages 60-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Gendering Luhmann: The Paradoxical Simultaneity of Gender Equality and Inequality....Pages 85-107
Luhmann, All Too Luhmann: Nietzsche, Luhmann and the Human....Pages 108-134
Only Connect: Luhmann and Bioethics....Pages 135-149
Spatiality, Imitation, Immunization: Luhmann and Sloterdijk on the Social....Pages 150-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Limits of Interpretation, Closure of Communication: Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann Observing Texts....Pages 171-184
Organizations, Institutions and Semantics: Systems Theory Meets Institutionalism....Pages 185-202
Luhmann and Koselleck: Conceptual History and the Diagnostics of the Present....Pages 203-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Luhmann and Derrida: Immunology and Autopoiesis....Pages 227-242
In the Multiverse What Is Real? Luhmann, Complexity and ANT....Pages 243-262
Luhmann and Marx: Social Theory and Social Freedom....Pages 263-283
Afterword....Pages 284-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-295