Description: Radical Luhmann, Paperback by Moeller, Hans-Georg, ISBN 0231153791, ISBN-13 9780231153799, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Niklas Luhmann (1) was a German sociologist and system theorist who wrote on law, economics, politics, art, religion, ecology, mass media, and love. Luhmann advocated a radical constructivism and antihumanism, or "grand theory," to explain society within a universal theoretical framework. Nevertheless, despite being an iconoclast, Luhmann is viewed as a political conservative. Hans-Georg Moeller challenges this legacy, repositioning Luhmann as an explosive thinker critical of Western humanism.
Moeller focuses on Luhmanns shift from philosophy to theory, which introduced new perspectives on the contemporary world. For centuries, the task of philosophy meant transforming contingency into necessity, in the sense that philosophy enabled an understanding of the necessity of everything that appeared contingent. Luhmann pursued the opposite—the transformation of necessity into contingency. 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 Copernicuss cosmological, Darwins biological, and Freuds psychological deconstructions of anthropocentrism, he added a sociological "fourth insult" to human vanity.
A theoretical shift toward complex system-environment relations helped Luhmann "accidentally" solve one of Western philosophys primary problems: mind-body dualism. By pulling communication into the mix, Luhmann rendered the Platonic dualist heritage obsolete. Moellers clarity opens such formulations to general understanding and directly relates Luhmannian theory to contemporary social issues. He also captures for the first time a Luhmannian attitude toward society and life, defined through the cultivation of modesty, irony, and equanimity.
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Book Title: Radical Luhmann
Number of Pages: 184 Pages, 160 Pages
Publication Name: Radical Luhmann
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Sociology / General, History & Theory, General, Political
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Author: Hans-Georg Moeller
Item Length: 8.2 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
