キング&ソーンヒル『ルーマンの法政論』

Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Politics and Law

Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Politics and Law

「6章 結論」読んだ。
2章から〜5章が「概説」、6章が「ルーマン理論に関するよくある批判」の検討。

よくある批判リスト [p.204]:

More informed critiques of Luhmann usually refer to the following themes or varitions upon them:

  1. his theory's excessively eclectic nature in the sources from which it is drawn and its tendency, therefore, towards incoherence and inconsistency
  2. his failure to demonstrate empirically that his theory contributes to the sociological analysis of the contemporary institutions of politics and law
  3. his failure to build into his theory any recognition of local or historical variations which may significantly affect and condition the operation of legal and political systems
  4. his reluctance to engage in debates ober current political or legal issues
  5. his refusal to see law and politics as instruments for progress in society
  6. his failure to account for human agency in directing change through law and politics, or in using law and politics to resist change
  7. the failure of his theoretical ideas to offer anything more than a new brand of conservatism
  8. his rejection of rationality as a universal arbiter of validity, value and legitimacy.

キング&ソーンヒルの解答(大意)

1 出自の異なる概念を折衷的に使っておるのがけしからん

どうでもいい話。略。

2 経験的研究へのインプリケーションが不明なのがけしからん

ポパーがどうの、とか。面白くないので略。
「システム論と経験的研究との関係」について、この応答論文で云々してるらしい:http://pos.sagepub.com/content/vol16/issue1/ 一本2000円....

  • Niklas Luhmann 'The Theory of Social Systems and its Epistemology: Reply to Danilo Zolo's Critical Comments'Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1986 16:112-131
    • 批判論文:Danilo Zolo 'Function, Meaning, Complexity: The Epistemological Premisses of Niklas Luhmann's 'Sociological Enlightenment' Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1986 16: 115-127
あと、こんな論文があるそうだ。読むの怖いな:http://sls.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/7/4/451
  • Paterson, J. and Teubner, G. (1998) 'Changing Maps: Empirical Legal Autopoiesis', Social and Legal Studies, Vol.7 (4), 451-468.

著者のひと:http://law.aberdeen.ac.uk/staffmember.php?ID=46

この本に再掲されているようだ。1万6千円.....:

Theory And Method in Socio-legal Research (Onati International Series in Law and Society)

Theory And Method in Socio-legal Research (Onati International Series in Law and Society)

トイプナーのところで公開されていた....。(http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/ から検索)

3 ローカルな「政治文化」とか「法文化」といったものに対する配慮が無いのがけしからん

「相互作用」や「組織」の水準では配慮している。(大意)

えっーーーー!?

4 同時代の法的・政治的イシューをめぐる議論に参加しないのがけしからん

The observer of systems' operations has to adopt an attitude of total indifference on the question of whether these operations produce morally good or morally bad results, or whether they result is progress or regression.[p.212]

えっーーーーーーーーーーーーーー!?

5 法や政治を 革新(あるいは保守)のための道具 だと みなさないのがけしからん

ルーマンは、法や政治を、〈社会的活動の中心〉とか〈社会における出来事の prime cause〉だとか考えたがる奴に反対してるだけですよ(大意)

[p.213-214]
6 法や政治をとおして社会を変革しようとする(あるいは変化に抗するために法や政治を用いる)人間の働きを説明することに失敗しておるのがけしからん

ちょwww ボブ・ジェソップ インタビュ〜〜

Finally, from Chilean biology, if not directly, at least by way of Niklas Luhmann (a German sociologist), Gunther Teubner (a German legal theorist), and Helmut Willke (a German political scientist), I took the notion of 'autopoiesis'. Transposed (some would say illegitimately) from cell biology to sociology, the autopoieticist approach suggests that all (major) societal sub-systems (such as law, politics, the economy, and science) can be studied as self-referential, self-reproducing, and self-regulating. In brief, these systems discursively constitute their own boundaries, re-create themselves the conditions for their internal operations, and develop in terms of their own modus operandi rather than being subordinate to some external (functional or input-output) logic. This was especially helpful for thinking through the old problem of the state's 'relative autonomy' vis-à-vis the market economy. For it suggests this problem can be addressed in terms of the path-dependent 'structural coupling' between two operationally autonomous but ecologically interdependent subsystems. There were several other lessons that I derived from theories of autopoiesis but the link to relative autonomy was the most important initially.

It has also been claimed that Marx's ability to produce a creative synthesis from German philosophy, French politics, and English economics involved more than his capacity to develop boils on the backside by sitting for hours in the British Museum Library.

えっーーー!
7 要するに新たなる保守主義。それがけしからん

どうでもいい話なので略。

8 妥当性・価値・正当性の最終的裁定者としての合理性を拒絶しておるのがけしからん