Titlebook: Niklas Luhmann‘s Theory of Politics and Law; Michael King,Chris Thornhill Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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,Luhmann’s Social Theory,ty itself is a mass of complexities, and Luhmann saw the task of a social theorist as observing complexity for what it is and avoiding simplified or reductionist accounts of the social world. He wanted to avoid above all else the idea that one could capture ‘the truth’ or essence of modern society i

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,Society’s Legal System, both in popular parlance and academic texts. Yet the combination of subtle changes in concepts resulting from German to English translation, on the one hand, and the very specific meanings that Luhmann gives to terms such as ‘system’ within his theoretical scheme, on the other, makes it necessary f

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The Subject of Liberalism,ment of modern sociology and legal and political theory. We shall offer an account of the conceptual foundations of Luhmann’s thought, and in this we emphasize the importance of his criticisms of the theoretical assumptions concerning politics, law and society that are widely accepted within contemp

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Conclusion: Luhmann and his Critics,osition as a highly critical observer of radical and idealistic social movements earned him a reputation as a reactionary social theorist and as a major exponent of conservative political ideas. At the same time his observations of the legal and political systems, and in particular his refusal to ac

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Book 2003nhill now offer the first comprehensive, critical examination of Luhmann‘s highly original theory of the operations of the legal and political systems. They describe how from the perspective of his ‘sociological enlightenment‘ Luhmann continually calls to account the certainties, the ambitions and r

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g and Thornhill now offer the first comprehensive, critical examination of Luhmann‘s highly original theory of the operations of the legal and political systems. They describe how from the perspective of his ‘sociological enlightenment‘ Luhmann continually calls to account the certainties, the ambit

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al systems. They describe how from the perspective of his ‘sociological enlightenment‘ Luhmann continually calls to account the certainties, the ambitions and rational foundations of The Enlightenment and the idealized versions of law and politics which they have produced.978-1-4039-9801-9978-0-230-50358-8