Contents:
Volume
6 No. 3, 1999
Søren
Brier: Foreword Full Text
Dirk
Baecker: Gypsy Reason: Niklas Luhmann’s Sociological Enlightenment Abstract
Niklas
Luhmann: Sign as Form Abstract
Nina
Ort and Markus Peter: Niklas Luhmann: ‘Sign as Form’ — A comment Abstract
Burton
Voorhees:
Correlational
Analysis of Complex Systems Abstract
Columns
Louis
H. Kauffman: Virtual Logic — The Matrix Full
Text
Ranulph
Glanville, Bob Barbour, Michael Schreiber and Stuart Umpleby: A (Cybernetic)
Musing: The Millennium Bug Full
Text
Reviews
John
P. van Gigch: An Introduction to Epistemology
ASC Pages
Pille
Bunnell: An Invitation for Conversation and Reflection
Full Text
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Gypsey Reason:
Niklas Luhmann's Sociological Enlightenment
By
Dirk Baecker
Abstract: Niklas
Luhmann died in November 1998. He had been elaborating his theory of the
society for more than thirty years which has been well received in many
quarters of society in the modern world. Yet somehow we are only now beginning
to read him when he is no longer there to be asked. And we are beginning
to discuss his work although we cannot invite him to lecture us anymore.
The following article takes up Luhmann’s very recent small and comprehensive
book on Husserl and places him, as he did himself, in a tradition of ‘enlightenment’
which aims for a self-critical constitution of reason.
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