Widerstände Der Systemtheorie 1999
DOI: 10.1524/9783050077857.63
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Beobachtungsverhältnisse. Zur (Kunst-)Geschichte Der Beobachtung Zweiter Ordnung

Abstract: Systemtheorie ist nach dem Willen Luhmanns eine "Theorie rekursiver Beobachtungsverhältnisse, also eine Theorie (Beobachtung) der Beobachtung des Beobachtens." 1 Als solche erhebt sie den Anspruch, gleichzeitig Erkenntnistheorie und Gesellschaftstheorie zu sein: Sie beschreibt gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse als Beobachtungsverhältnisse und Beobachtungsverhältnisse als gesellschaftliche. Sie ist, mit anderen Worten, "eine Theorie der Differenzierung", die "sich selbst als Resultat von Differenzierung begreif(t)… Show more

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“…It is not the conventional renunciation of binary moral concepts, but rather a further-reaching analysis The Wire offers here, which echoes a concept maybe most consistently represented in Niklas Luhmann’s (1989) theory: the idea that modern society is nothing other than the entirety of all relations between systems and their environments (p. 158). If society only consists of various systems that interconnect, it must prove elusive in its totality: it cannot be observed, since it is more than the sum of all the separate observations pertaining to different fields (Lüdemann, 1999: 64). That the totality of society cannot validly be represented within society is, according to Luhmann, a consequence of the functionally differentiated, modern society.…”
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“…It is not the conventional renunciation of binary moral concepts, but rather a further-reaching analysis The Wire offers here, which echoes a concept maybe most consistently represented in Niklas Luhmann’s (1989) theory: the idea that modern society is nothing other than the entirety of all relations between systems and their environments (p. 158). If society only consists of various systems that interconnect, it must prove elusive in its totality: it cannot be observed, since it is more than the sum of all the separate observations pertaining to different fields (Lüdemann, 1999: 64). That the totality of society cannot validly be represented within society is, according to Luhmann, a consequence of the functionally differentiated, modern society.…”
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