“…Miller, 1992Miller, , 2002Eder, 1996Eder, , 2000Strydom, 1999aStrydom, , 2000Strydom, , 2002Delanty, 1999aDelanty, , 1999bTrenz and Eder, 2004), that he would be able to fend off the concerted and vehement attack that a whole school following Luhmann (e.g. Sutter, 1997;Hörning, Ahrens and Gerhard, 1997;Sutter and Charlton, 1999) is at present waging against him. What both Habermas and these critics of his have in common, ironically, is the debilitating assumption of the traditional concept of double contingency.…”