dc.contributor.author
Amstutz, Marc
dc.contributor.author
Fischer-Lescano, Andreas
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2015-09-01
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2015-09-09T09:46:51.175Z
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https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/17034
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-21214
dc.description.abstract
The volume edited by Marc Amstutz and Andreas Fischer-Lescano presents studies
that offer a critical perspective within Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. For
those not familiar with the contemporary debates on this subject, this may
sound like a contradiction in terms. After all, Luhmann insisted on pointing
out a clear cleavage between Frankfurt and Bielefeld (Luhmann, 1990, 1993).
Nevertheless, we can track a series of efforts to deploy Luhmann critically,
even if this endeavour contradicts his original perspective. These efforts
date back to the mid-1990s and by no means comprise a unified project
(Demirović, 2001; Jessop, 1992, 2008; Schimank, 2009; Stäheli, 2000; and, more
recently, Möller, 2012; Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2010). Nonetheless, the
task is not simple nor has it concluded. To the contrary, the debate is only
beginning and therefore deserves closer attention. In this sense, this volume
should be welcomed by those who see an unexplored potential in systems theory
that could be engaged in a critical account of modern society, for it could
eventually open a new line of research that could provide new energy to both
systems theory and critical theory. This volume is the first to explicitly
present a conciliation of traditionally antagonistic views as the core of a
collective theoretical project. After a programmatic essay establishing the
principles guiding a critical reading of systems theory (Fischer-Lescano,
‘Systemtheorie als kritische Gesellschaftstheorie’), the chapters in the first
section discuss the main features and viability of this endeavour, aided by a
discussion of critical works of varied provenance (e.g. Michel Foucault,
Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman and the earlier Frankfurt School). The second
section offers innovative perspectives on the responsiveness of global social
systems, and is largely focused …
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http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm
dc.subject
Critical theory
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Niklas Luhmann
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sociological theory
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systems theory
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300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title
Book Review: Marc Amstutz and Andreas Fischer-Lescano (eds), Kritische
Systemtheorie: Zur Evolution einer normativen Theorie
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Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
International Sociology. - 29 (2014), 5, S. 405-408
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1177/0268580914544433
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http://iss.sagepub.com/content/29/5/405
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Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
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open access