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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 96-110, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
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International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture, 2019 The aim of the current essay is to present the focal points of what Niklas Luhmann describes as human consciousness. Luhmann recognizes consciousness as an entity and reality, which cannot be reduced to other disciplines such as biology or sociology. The
Shahram Bagheri
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Claus Offe (1940–2025): A Tribute to His Academic Work and His Role as a Political Intellectual
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Tine Stein
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 342-352, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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Pensar, 2012 Este paper tem como objetivo desenvolver a introdução à teoria dos sistemas sociais de Niklas Luhmann a partir de uma ruptura epistemológica conforme a teoria de Gaston Bachelard.
Rafael Luiz Ferronatto +1 more
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The Functional Method of Comparative Law [PDF]
, 2006 The functional method has become both the mantra and the bete noire of contemporary comparative law. The debate over the functional method is the focal point of almost all discussions about the field of comparative law as a whole, about centers and ...
Michaels, Ralf
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What Judges Need to Know: The Anti‐Factual Challenge and Judicial Review
The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 1, Page 3-27, January 2026.Today, there is a ‘knowledge crisis’, informing ‘societies of doubt’. Looked at more closely, we are confronted with attacks on expertise and knowledge, on facts and truth, as one chapter in the autocratic playbook. This challenges the legal system in many ways, be it legislation and other types of regulation, or administration and governance, as well ...
Susanne Baer
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Niklas Luhmann en el Sociological Abstracts (1991-2001)
Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2003 El presente trabajo estudia la presencia de Niklas Luhmann en el Sociological abstracts, uno de los más importantes índices internacionales de sociología del mundo.
Luis J. González Oquendo
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Niklas Luhmann y la observación [PDF]
, 2002 La organización compleja de saberes en que se han concentrado las ciencias en los últimos tiempos obliga a los estudiosos de ámbitos científicos estrictamente muy acotados, a poner en duda la "tradicional frontera de saberes" Las disciplinas científicas ...
Tell, Elvio
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Teoría de Sistemas y Deconstrucción [PDF]
, 2013 The following article attempts to be a contribution to the reflection on the lines of continuity, proximity relations and possibles elements of differentiationon two theoretical fields of growing importance within the social sciences ...
Durán, Carlos
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