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Actions, communications, and social systems

My writing aims at the development of a conceptual framework for the description of social entities like schools, families, nation-states, corporations, transnational regimes, et cetera as normative endeavours. The explicit recognition of the normative character of the social world is helpful for assessment, criticism, and design of social structures. Read more..

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Foundations of a theory of social Systems

The essays in this section are all about basic concepts of the theory of social systems that was developed by Luhmann in the last quarter of the 20th century.
  • Der verhängnisvolle Unterschied (1995b)
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Organization and society

Texts in this section concentrate on the relationships between functionally specialized subsystems of society, like politics, law, economy, education and labour relations, and organizations.
  • The Distinctions within Organizations: Luhmann from a Cultural Perspective (2006)
  • Das gesellschaftliche System der Arbeitsbeziehungen. Bemerkungen zu Ralf Rogowski: “Industrial relations as a social system” (2001)
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Production of social entities

The essays presented in this section try to overcome problems in existing conceptualizations of human beings and social entities.
  • Kollektive Intention und Definition der Situation (2013)
  • Kollektive Intention und Soziologie (2013)
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Rules of freedom in transnational regulation

Essays in this section pursue the idea that Habermas’s conception of deliberative democracy could be deepened and generalized on the one hand, and re-specified for the governance of transnational communities one finds on the other.
  • Democracy for transnational regimes (2014)
  • Human rights, and the destructive communications and actions of differentiated society (2011)

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    Foundations of a theory of social Systems
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    Organization and society
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    Production of social entities
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    Rules of freedom in transnational regulation
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