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Anders La Cour 
Luhmann Observed 
Radical Theoretical Encounters

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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.
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Luhmann Encountered; Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Anders la Cour PART I: RADICAL PARADOXES 1. Contingency, Reciprocity, the Other and the Other in the Other Luhmann-Lacan, an Encounter; Jean Clam 2. Luhmann’s Ontology; William Rasch 3. The Autopoietic Fold: Critical Autopoiesis between Luhmann and Deleuze; Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos PART II: RADICAL MATERIALITY 4. Gendering Luhmann: The Paradoxical Simultaneity of Gender Equality and Inequality; Christine Weinbach 5. Luhmann, All Too Luhmann: Nietzsche, Luhmann and the Human; Todd Cesaratto 6. Only Connect: Luhmann and Bioethics; Sharon Persaud 7. Spatiality, Imitation, Immunisation: Luhmann and Sloterdijk on the Social; Christian Borch PART III: RADICAL SEMANTICS 8. Luhmann and Umberto Eco: The Riddles of Interpretation and the Reference to Society; Elena Esposito 9. Organisations, Institutions and Semantics: Systems theory meets Institutionalism; Anders La Cour and Holger Højlund 10. Luhmann and Koselleck: Conceptual History and the Diagnostics of the Present; Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen PART IV: RADICAL POLITICS 11. Luhmann and Derrida: Immunology and Autopoiesis; Willis S. Guerra Filho 12. In the Multiverse what is Real? Luhmann, Complexity and ANT; Barbara Mauthe and Thomas E. Webb 13. Luhmann and Marx: Social Theory and Social Freedom; Chris Thornhill

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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
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 295 ● ISBN 9781137015297 ● File size 1.2 MB ● Editor A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2712673 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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