absolute knowledge
Adorno, Theodor W
agency, mind-body problem and
allopoietic
American Revolution
analytic philosophy
anthropocentrism
antifoundationalism
antihumanist theory; Luhmann as radical antihumanist
Apology (Plato)
Argentina, economy of
Art as a Social System (Die Kunst der Gesellschaft) (Luhmann)
“autological” constructivist epistemology
autopoietic communication systems,
autopoietic systems
autopoietical generation
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Bateson, Gregory
Beck, Ulrich
being, consciousness and
“Beyond Barbarism” (Luhmann)
Bildung
biological concepts
biological processes
biological systems
body, location of mind within
body-mind. See mind-body dualism; mind-body problem
brain: mind and; use of term
brainwaves
Brant, Sebastian
Brown, George Spencer
Büchner, Georg
capitalist economy: Marx on; self-steering of
carnivalization
Cartesian hypothesis
causal nexus
causality
certainty
Chinese tradition
circle of power
civil society
Clam, Jean
Clarke, Bruce
climate change, politics and
closed systems
coevolution
coevolutionary ecosystem
cognition,
“Cognition as Construction” (Luhmann)
cognitive constructivism
cognitive functions
cognitive observation
cognitive openness
collectively binding decisions
communication: about; defined; functional theory of; Luhmann on; mass media; mind-body problem and; scientific communication; sense; society and; theory of
communication systems
communicative processes (operations)
communism
complex machines
Comte, Auguste
consciousness: being and; Hegel on; Marx on; theory of
constructivism
constructivist epistemology
constructivist realism
contingency
Copernicus
creationism
critical theory
Critique (Kant)
cybernetic mechanism
cybernetics
Czerwick, Edwin
Danton’s Death (Büchner)
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
de Berg, Henk
decision-making, political
Declaration of Independence (U.S.),
declaring war
deconstruction
“Deconstruction as Second-Order Observing” (Luhmann)
Deleuze, Gilles
democracy; deconstruction of; despotic democracies; European; general elections; Luhmann on; mythical aspect of; political education and; political parties; political power
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, Rene
despotic democracies
dialectical ontologies
difference, construction of
difference-theoretical multiple rationality
Der Diskurs des radikalen Konstruktivismus (Schmidt, ed.)
“dissolution of systems rationality,”
distinction-making
Dockstader, Jason
doctors, systems-environment theory and
“domination-free discourse,”
drugs. See medication
Drury, Maurice
Ecological Communication (Ökologische Kommunikation) (Luhmann)
ecological evolution
ecological genealogy
ecological systems theory
ecologism
economic stability
economic systems
economy: as communication system; Luhmann on; sense in; steering of by politics; See also capitalist economy
The Economy of Society (Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft) (Luhmann)
ecosystems: about;coevolutionary; immanent ecosystem
education: Kant on; political education
Einführung in die Systemtheorie (Introduction to Systems Theory) (Luhmann)
elections
emergence
Enlightenment (historical period)
Enlightenment (process)
environment: system-environment multiplicity; use of term
environment/subsystem relations
epistemology
Die erfundene Wirklichkeit (Watzlawick, ed.)
Esposito, Elena
ethical philosophy
ethical theory
ethics, Luhmann on
Ethics (Spinoza)
European democracies
evolution: Luhmann on; of society; vs. history
evolutionary biology
evolutionary ecology
evolutionary theory. See theory of evolution
“Excursus on Luhmann’s Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory” (Habermas)
Farias, Ignacio
feedback loop
feelings
Feuerbach, Ludwig
financial crisis of 1997
first-order cybernetics
first-order systems theory
“for-selfness,”
Foucault, Michel
foundationalism
Frankfurt-Bielefeld controversy
free market politics, Gray on
Freud, Sigmund
Freud’s insults to human vanity
functional differentiation
functional theory of communication
functions, in simultaneously operating systems
G8 summit
genealogy
general elections
general systems theory
general will
genetic engineering
Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (The Society of Society) (Luhmann)
global warming
globalization
“Globalization or World Society? How to Conceive of Modern Society?” (Luhmann)
government: circle of power; opposition and; See also democracy; political power; political systems; politics
government regulations
Gray, John
Gray, William
Grosse-Ruyken, Jari
Guy, Jean-Sebastien
Habermas, Jürgen: about; on language; Luhmann and; on metaphysics; on reality; on reason; on society
Habermas-Luhmann controversy
Haraway, Donna J.,
Hardt, Michael
Hayles, N. Katherine
heart, as seat of human consciousness
Hegel, Georg W.F.: about; absolute knowledge; Bildung; on cognition; on consciousness; on knowledge; Luhmann and; Marx and; on necessity; Phenomenology of Spirit; on philosophy; on science; on spir; super-theory of; on system; “topsy-turvy world,”; writing style of
Hegel’s Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Verene)
Heidegger, Martin
Hellmann, Kai-Uwe
historical progress
historicism
history
Hobbes, Thomas
Hopi Indian rain dances
human beings: brainwaves of; communication by; idea of; as self-creators
human body, as system
human consciousness. See consciousness
human mind
humanism: refutation of; in Western Enlightenment
Hume, David
Husserl, Edmund
identity-difference distinction
illness
immanent ecosystem
immanent epistemology
immune system
insults to human vanity
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Introduction to Systems Theory (Einführung in die Systemtheorie) (Luhmann)
ironical ethics
ironical reason
irony
jargon
Jokisch, Rodrigo
justice
Kant, Immanuel: on education; on epistemology; on knowledge; Luhmann and; on metaphysics; ontology of; on philosophy; Prolegomena; on reality; on social reality; supertheory of; on system; on transcendent/transcendental theories
King, Michael
Knodt, Eva
knowledge; defined; Hegel on; Kant on; in society
knowledge society
Kuhn, Thomas
Die Kunst der Gesellschaft (Art as a Social System) (Luhmann)
language
Law as a Social System (Das Recht der Gesellschaft) (Luhmann)
legal system
Liebe als Passion Love as Passion (Luhmann)
living systems
Locker, Alfred
Logique du sens (Deleuze)
Love as Passion (Liebe als Passion) (Luhmann)
Luhmann, Niklas: attempts to soften radicalism; biographical information; conceptual vocabulary of; criticisms of; death of; declaration of radical intentions; Habermas and; Hegel and; honors; ideas of; impact of; inaccessible language of; Kant and; modesty of; nonlinearity of texts; note cabinet of; opponents of; political position in modern Germany; as posthumanist; as radical antihumanist; radicalism of; reactions to; refutation of humanism; vagueness of writing; writing method of; writing style of; writings of
Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems (Moeller)
Luhmann’s ideas: on autopoietic systems; on circle of power; on cognition; on communication; on contingency; on democracy; on ecological evolution; on economy; on epistemology; on errors; on ethics; on evolution; Habermas-Luhmann controversy; on humanism; irony in; metabiological nature of theory; on mind-body relation; on morality; on ontology; on philosophy; on political power; on political systems; on postmodernism; on radical constructivism; on rationality; on realism; on reality; on science; on sense; on Sinn; on social systems; on society; on sociology; supertheory; on systems; on theory; theory of society
Lyotard, Jean-François
Marx, Karl: about; analysis of capitalist economy; Hegel and; on history; on mind-body dualism; on philosophy; on political theory; on social progress; on society
mass media
Maturana, Humberto
McLuhan, Marshall
mechanistic cybernetics
medication, side effects of
mental systems
“metabiological” approach
metacritical
metaphysics: Habermas on; Kant on; ontological metaphysics
military system
mind: autopoietic systems and brain and; location within the body; workings of
mind-body dualism: Marx on; in nineteenth century; Plato on; in twentieth century
mind-body problem; Descartes on; Luhmann on; See also mind-body dualism; mind-body triadism
mind-body triadism
modern state
modernity
Moeller, Hans-Georg
Monk, Ray
moral communication
morality: Luhmann on; reflective theory of
Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools) (Brant)
Native American rituals, comparison to
natural selection
Nazi ideology
necessity
negative ethics
Negri, Antonio
NGOs
Nietzsche, Friedrich: on “four great errors,”; on historical progress; on mind-body dualism
nonironical ethics
nonironical reason
nontheoretical reflective knowledge
nontrivial machines
North America: reception of Luhmann’s theories in; social systems theory in
Observando Sistemas (Farias and Ossandon, eds.)
observation
official circle of power
Ökologische Kommunikation (Luhmann)
ontological differentiation
ontology: about; Kant on Luhmann on
openness of systems
operationally closed systems
opposition, government and
Ossandon, Jose
“own-achievement,”
Parsons, Talcott
passion, mind-body problem and,
The Passions of the Soul (Descartes)
“people’s parties,”
Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel)
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Habermas)
philosophical ethics
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
philosophical science
philosophical systems: Hegel on; Luhmann on
philosophy; carnivalization of; as cognitive science; ethics and; Hegel on; history of; irony in; Kant on; Luhmann on; Marx on; as purveyor of “actual knowledge,”; as scientific activity; self-inclusion of; sense in
philosophy of necessity
physical systems
physiological processes
pineal gland
“plant of immanence,”
Plato: on mind-body dualism; ontological differentiation of; Republic
pluralism
pluralist realism
political education
political parties
political power: circle of power; climate change and; declaring war; government regulations; Luhmann on; “reflexivity of power relations,” ; will of the people
political systems; elements of; Luhmann on; single-party systems; steering of; See also democracy; government; politics
political theory, Marx on
political utopia
politics: climate change and; deconstruction of; economy steered by; general elections; society and; See also democracy; government; political power; political systems
positivists
post-Darwinian ecological evolutionary theory
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems (Clarke)
posthumanist theory
postmodernism
postmodernity
power: declaring war; diffusion of; political decision-making
probability
progress
Prolegomena to any Future Meta physics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as Science (Kant)
psychic systems
psychological processes
psychopharmacological drugs, side effects of
psychosomatic continuum; See also mind-body dualism; mind-body problem; mind-body triadism
public opinion
purified language
radical antihumanist, Luhmann as
radical constructivism
radical immanence
radicalism, of Luhmann
rain dances
rationality, Luhmann on
Rawls, John
real language
realism
realist ontology
Die Realitas der Massenmedien (The Reality of the Mass Media) (Luhmann)
reality: construction of; Haber-mas on; Luhmann on; Wittgenstein on
The Reality of the Mass Media (Die Realitas der Massenmedien) (Luhmann)
reason, Habermas on
Das Recht der Gesellschaft (Law as a Social System) (Luhmann)
redundancy, in government
reflective theory of morality
“reflexivity of power relations”(Luhmann)
relativism
Renaissance
Republic (Plato)
res cogitans
res extensa
Rhees, Rush
Risk: A Sociological Theory (Soziologie des Risikos) (Luhmann)
risk society
Rizzo, Nicholas D.,
Rousseau, Henri
rule of the people
Saint-Simon, Henri de
Schelsky, Helmut
Schmidt, Johannes
Schmidt, Siegfried J.,
science: embedding in society;esoteric nature of; Hegel on; Kuhn on; Luhmann on; self-inclusion of; sense of
The Science of Society (Die Wissenschaft der Gesellschaft) (Luhmann)
science of the spirit
scientific communication
scientific knowledge
second-order cybernetics
second-order emergence
second-order systems
second-order systems theory
selections
self-cognition
self-conception
self-critical reason
self-description
self-generating
self-inclusion
self-reference
self-steering
self-understanding
semantic evolution
semantics
sense
sense of life
Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff) (Brant)
shock and awe morality
side effects, of a medication
single-party system
Sinn
social constructivism
social Darwinism
social engineering
social evolution
social institutions
social modification, technological change and
social ontology
social reality
social sciences
social sense
social steering: limits of; pretension of control and
social systems: about civil society; communication systems as; Luhmann on; McLuhan on; as observing systems; theory of
social systems theory: Luhmann on; postmodernism compared to
Social Systems: Outline of a General Theory (Luhmann)
social theory: about; anthropocentrism; Luhmann’s approach to; “metabiological” approach; modern; transcendental
social values
socialist economies, self-steering of
society: based on unity; civil society; cognition and; communication and; evolution of; Habermas on; Luhmann on; Marx on; metabiological analysis of; modern transcendental theories; Plato on; politics and; reality of; science embedded in; self-descriptions of; sense in; social steering; steering theory and; stratification of; theory of; uses of knowledge in
The Society of Society (Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft) (Luhmann)
sociological insult
sociology: about; dis-humanization of; Luhmann on
Socrates
soul: Platonic reign over physical; See also mind-body dualism
Soziale Systeme (Social Systems) (Luhmann)
Soziologie des Risikos (Luhmann)
Spencer, Herbert
Spinoza, Baruch
spirit: about; Hegel on
spiritual systems
“stability by flexibility,”
state
steering: cybernetics and; limits of; operational closure and; of political systems; pretension of control and; See also self-steering; social steering
steering theory
stratified differentiation
Straw Dogs (Gray)
structural coupling
subsystem/environment relations
subsystems
supertheory
survival of the fittest
symbolic democracy
symbolic rule
system-environment multiplicity
system-environment relations
systematic philosophy
systematic theory
systemic triadism
systems: about; change in; Hegel on; Luhmann on; use of term
systems-environment theory: about; doctors and; medication side effects as example; probability and
systems rationality
systems theory: about; contemporary; Hegel on; Luhmann on; second-order systems theory; as system/environment theory Systemtheorie der Demokratie (Czerwick)
technological change, social modification and
theoretical ethics
theoretical expertise
theoretical knowledge
theoretical reason
Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie (Habermas and Luhmann)
theory, Luhmann on
theory architecture
theory of autopoiesis
theory of communication
theory of consciousness
theory of contingency
theory of ecosystems
theory of evolution
theory of social systems
theory of society
Theory of Society or Social Technology (Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie) (Habermas and Luhmann)
Thornhill, Chris
Tieck, Ludwig
“topsy-turvy world,”
totalitarian democracies
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)
transcendent/transcendental theories
triadism
trivial machines
true knowledge
truth
Twilight of the Idols (Nietzsche)
unexamined life
Unity Through Diversity: A Festschrift for Ludwig von Bertanlanffy (Gray and Rizzo, eds.)
“Universality of Spirit,”
unofficial circle of power
utopias
Varela, Francisco
variety, in government
Verene, Donald Phillip
von Foerster, Heinz
von Glaserfeld, Ernst
voting; See also elections
war: declaring; as social system
war on drugs
war on terror
Watzlawick, Paul
“weak soul,”
Weimar Republic
Western Enlightenment. See Enlightenment
Whitehead, Alfred North
will of the people
Wilson, E. O.,
Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft (The Economy of Society) (Luhmann)
Die Wissenschaft der Gesellschaft (The Science of Society) (Luhmann)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wohlfart, Günther
Zolo, Danilo