Luhmann Observed

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.

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