The radical Luhmann / Hans-Georg Moeller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moeller, Hans-Georg, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social systems--Philosophy.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Summary:

In The Radical Luhmann, Hans-Georg Moeller focuses on Luhmann's paradigm shift from philosophy to theory, which introduced new perspectives on the contemporary world. Boldly breaking with the heritage of Western thought, Luhmann denied the central role of humans in social theory, particularly the possibility of autonomous agency. In this way, after Copernicus's cosmological, Darwin's biological, and Freud's psychological deconstructions of anthropocentrism, he added a sociological ""fourth insult"" to human vanity. A theoretical shift toward complex system-environment relations helped Luh

Contents:

The trojan horse: Luhmann's (not so) hidden radicalism

Why he wrote such bad books

The fourth insult: a refutation of humanism

From necessity to contingency: a carnivalization of philosophy

The last footnote to Plato: a solution to the mind-body problem

Ecological evolution: a challenge to social creationism

Constructivism as postmodernist realism: a teaching of differences

Democracy as a utopia: a deconstruction of politics

Conclusion: Nec spe nec metu : neither hope nor fear.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613790101

9781281747587

1281747580

9780231527170

0231527179

OCLC:

826476456