The Radical Luhmann

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In The Radical Luhmann, Hans-Georg Moeller focuses on Luhmann's paradigm shift from philosophy to theory, which introduced new perspectives on the contemporary world. Boldly breaking with the heritage of Western thought, Luhmann denied the central role of humans in social theory, particularly the possibility of autonomous agency. In this way, after Copernicus's cosmological, Darwin's biological, and Freud's psychological deconstructions of anthropocentrism, he added a sociological ""fourth insult"" to human vanity. A theoretical shift toward complex system-environment relations helped Luh.;The trojan horse: Luhmann's (not so) hidden radicalism -- Why he wrote such bad books -- The fourth insult: a refutation of humanism -- From necessity to contingency: a carnivalization of philosophy -- The last footnote to Plato: a solution to the mind-body problem -- Ecological evolution: a challenge to social creationism -- Constructivism as postmodernist realism: a teaching of differences -- Democracy as a utopia: a deconstruction of politics -- Conclusion: Nec spe nec metu : neither hope nor fear.