Luhmann and Koselleck: Conceptual History and the Diagnostics of the Present

Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm

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“…Even though Luhmann built his theory of social systems mainly on serious semantics in contrast to everyday observation (see Joas and Knöbl [2009]; Stäheli [1997]), systems theory can also be approached differently, namely as a diagnostic of the present. From this perspective, it becomes possible to observe how present understandings of social identities (us/them) and temporalities (past/present/future) are framing communicative expectations (Andersen 2003(Andersen , 2013. When analysing the stories of educational experts in Finland, Norway and Sweden, our focus is not so much on historical consciousness of real historical happenings (Schieder 1978), but on how past happenings and the external environment are denoted to make sense and use in the present.…”

Section: Narratives As a Form Of Self-observationmentioning

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Moving landscapes of Nordic basic education: approaching shifting international influences through the narratives of educational experts

Hansen

Wallenius

Juvonen

et al. 2019

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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Throughout history educational leaders have looked to other countries and have attempted to learn by borrowing useful examples to implement in their own educational systems. As recent comparative policy research shows, processes of policy lending and borrowing have their own socio-historically defined dynamics. In this paper, the authors approach the use of reference countries through narratives of educational experts in Finland, Norway and Sweden. By comparing how international influences are used in stories about basic education, this research constructs a core narrative of a moving Nordic landscape. This landscape indicates both recognised and acknowledged policy borrowing relations in the past, as well as a changing orientation to preferred and avoided reference countries in the present. While new countryspecific performance indicators such as PISA have widened the landscape of reference countries at an official level, culturally mediated images seem to redefine how reference countries are observed in everyday semantics.

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Section: Narratives As a Form Of Self-observationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving landscapes of Nordic basic education: approaching shifting international influences through the narratives of educational experts

Hansen

Wallenius

Juvonen

et al. 2019

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The Negative Dialectics of Law: Luhmann and the Sociology of Juridical Concepts

Cordero

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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This article proposes to read Niklas Luhmann’s sociological theory of law from the perspective of what may be called the negative dialectics of law: namely, the irreconcilable tension between law as a mechanism that reproduces institutional orders and stabilizes normative expectations, and law as a medium that empowers transformative action and motivates social innovations. Drawing on this tension, the article advances an interpretation of the critical potential of Luhmann’s conceptualization of law by pointing out that the normative form of society emerges out of conflicts about the form of the normative within society. This formulation supposes that the unfolding of law is not the rational completion of higher principles into unified social structures, but a contradictory outcome semantically produced through endless iterations of the difference between what is legal and what is illegal. In doing so, it argues for a sociological reconsideration of the work of juridical concepts in the everyday operation of legal communications, as well as in the normatively guided search for what is non-actualized within the existing scope of positive legal forms. By reading Luhmann along the lines of a critical engagement with the law, the article further calls for exploring constituent moments as instances of reflexive instability that signal the unmarked space of normativity and bring the politicality of concepts to the fore.

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Luhmann and Koselleck: Conceptual History and the Diagnostics of the Present

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Moving landscapes of Nordic basic education: approaching shifting international influences through the narratives of educational experts

Moving landscapes of Nordic basic education: approaching shifting international influences through the narratives of educational experts

The Negative Dialectics of Law: Luhmann and the Sociology of Juridical Concepts

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