...YJ Sohn Purpose This essay examines how Niklas Luhmann built theories by reconstructing his work as a mode of problem construction. It argues that Luhmann's originality lay less in providing new answers than in transforming what counted as a problem in the first place. Design/methodology...

... reappraises and challenges Niklas Luhmann's occasionally distanced attitude to morality, which has occasionally been understood as a form of moral communication itself. Steffen Roth can be contacted at: roths@excelia-group.com 16 01 2022 12 02 2022 21 02 2022 © Emerald Publishing...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Systems theory Automata theory Niklas Luhmann Calculus of Indications Digital mathematics George Spencer-Brown With his major work, “Laws of Form” (Spencer-Brown, 1972), George Spencer-Brown presented a mathematical Calculus of Indications that has...

...Hans-Georg Moeller © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of the paper is to outline the concept of the general peer in detail and to show its relation to the relevant social theories by Niklas Luhmann and Jürgen Habermas...

... literature on moral communication and disciplinary apparatuses in a functionally differentiated society. It combines Luhmannian and Foucauldian theories to further the understanding of social system complexity. The paper draws on the work of Niklas Luhmann, Michel Foucault and others to explore...

.... Conflict Systems theory Second-order cybernetics Theatre Niklas Luhmann Augusto Boal Inspired by the critical pedagogy of Freire (2010) , “forum theatre” was originally developed by Brazilian director, activist and, later, city councillor, Augusto Boal as part of his program of the Theatre...

...Vladislav Valentinov; Spencer Thompson Purpose The economic theory of the firm apparently concurs with Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems with regard to the primary function of the firm to be complexity reduction, i.e. the alleviation of the cognitive burden on agents whose cognitive...

...Vladislav Valentinov Purpose The rise of the general systems theory in the twentieth century would not have been possible without the concept of feedback. Of special interest to the present paper is Niklas Luhmann’s reconstruction and critique of Wiener’s cybernetic approach to the feedback...