Luhmann Observed

1. Introduction: Luhmann Encountered
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Anders Cour

Part I. Radical Paradoxes

2. Contingency, Reciprocity, the Other, and the Other in the Other Luhmann–Lacan, an Encounter
Jean Clam

3. Luhmann’s Ontology
William Rasch

4. The Autopoietic Fold: Critical Autopoiesis between Luhmann and Deleuze
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Part II. Radical Materiality

5. Gendering Luhmann: The Paradoxical Simultaneity of Gender Equality and Inequality
Christine Weinbach

6. Luhmann, All Too Luhmann: Nietzsche, Luhmann and the Human
Todd Cesaratto

7. Only Connect: Luhmann and Bioethics
Sharon Persaud

8. Spatiality, Imitation, Immunization: Luhmann and Sloterdijk on the Social
Christian Borch

Part III. Radical Semantics

9. Limits of Interpretation, Closure of Communication: Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann Observing Texts
Elena Esposito

10. Organizations, Institutions and Semantics: Systems Theory Meets Institutionalism
Anders Cour, Holger Højlund

11. Luhmann and Koselleck: Conceptual History and the Diagnostics of the Present
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

Part IV. Radical Politics

12. Luhmann and Derrida: Immunology and Autopoiesis
Willis Santiago, Guerra Filho, Pablo Ghetti

13. In the Multiverse What Is Real? Luhmann, Complexity and ANT
Barbara Mauthe, Thomas E. Webb

14. Luhmann and Marx: Social Theory and Social Freedom
Chris Thornhill

15. Afterword
Anders Cour, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Keywords: Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Social Theory, Gender Studies, Political Theory, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Sociology, general