Niklas Luhmann

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos offers a fresh reading of Niklas Luhmann, the German sociologist. The book sets out Luhmann's ideas both as a account of society as a whole and as an account of the legal system in particular. Its central move is to bring Luhmann's writings into conversation, for the first time in a sustained way, with post-structuralism, deconstruction, phenomenology, radical ethics, feminist thought and post-ecologism. The author argues against common views that cast Luhmann as politically conservative, strictly positivist, and cut off from real-world evidence. Instead, he places Luhmann's work within a post-ideological approach to jurisprudence.