Ari S. Edmundson (2019) “A Selective Affinity”

「現象学と社会システム理論」で2400字。戦後西ドイツにおける流行語「Kontingenz」について。

2019 Ari S. Edmundson, “A Selective Affinity: Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory and the Sense of Contingency, 1958–1973”
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gp5h602

ところどころ、目次と本文でタイトルがズレている。

Introduction “A Sense of Contingency” 1
Supplement Leibniz’s Labyrinth: The Elements of Modern Kontingenzsinn 17
1. “The Accident Known as Luhmann” - A Brief Biographical Sketch 29
2. Undoing the Cosmos: Hans Blumenberg and the Contingency of the Modern Age 1947-1969 46
3. Functionalism and Utopia: Social Science Methodology and the Politics of Reality in the United States and West Germany, 1945-1970 92
4. Splitting Infinities: Overcoming Causal Functionalism, 1958-1964 122
5. The Bureaucratic Minotaur: Orienting Action through Ideology and Formal Organization, 1960-1964 155
6. The State Against Nature: The Antinomy of Voluntarism and Automatism in Legal and Administrative Science 185

Excursus Infinity as Indeterminacy: Buridan’s Ass as a Paradigm of Rationality 211
7. The Selective Imagination: Darwinism, Pragmatism, and Cybernetics Confront the Labyrinth 214
8. Do Bureaucrats Dream of Electric Mice? The Selective Affinity of Law, Automation, and Administration, 1966 230
9. Phenomenology and the Contingency of the World: Luhmann Reads Blumenberg, 1966-1971 270
10. The Dielectric of Enlightenment: Meaning and Contingency in the Luhmann-Habermas Debate, 1968-1973 294
Conclusion Lost in Leibniz’s Labyrinth? Systems Theory and the Pathos of Theodicy 315
Bibliography 321

詳細見出し

1 The Contingent Generation: The Politics and Pathos of Kontingenz in the Federal Republic 017
2. Ontotheology and Creationist Metaphysics 020
3 A Detour through Leibniz’s Labyrinth 023
4 Ariadne’s Thread: Selectivity and the “Voluntarism/Automatism Antinomy 025
5 Of Mice, Men, Machines, and Minotaurs 027

Introduction: Ambivalence 046
1 The Cosmos and Theological Voluntarism 052
2 Creatio ex Nihilismo: Negotiating Catholic Personalism and Existential Ontology 053
3 Worldhood and World-Alienation: Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspectives 057
4 Séances of the Artificial: Automatism, the Demonism of Technology, and “Second Nature” 061
5 What Kind of Concept is Contingency?: On Symbols, Metaphors, and Concepts of Reality 066
6 The Juridical-Existential Scopics of Contingency 069
7 Maw and Order: Infinity, Theodicy, Creativity 070
8 Leibniz Modern: ‘Logodicy’ Reoccupies Theodicy 074
9 Striving for Reason without a Reason for Striving: Self-Assertion, Self-Preservation, Self-Creation, Self-Restriction 077
10 History between Autonomy and Automaticity: Method, Technization and the Limits of Progress 081
11 Theodicy, Secularization and “Objective Cultural Debt”: Function and Substance in the History of Ideas 084

Introduction 092
1 Classical Functionalism and its Discontents from Durkheim to Parsons 093
- a. The History and Politics of Functionalism: Order, Utilitarianism, and Biology 093
- b. “An American Alternative to Marxism:” Talcott Parsons, Systems Theory, and Technocratic Conservatism 099
- c. "Industrial Society” and the “End of Ideology" 104
2 Method as the Politics of Reality: Sociology between Utopia and Order in the Federal Republic of Germany 108
- a. West German Sociology and the Positivism Dispute 108
- b. Scientific Method and Social Praxis: Adorno and Schelsky 111
- c. Ideology, Social Ontology and Utopian Possibility 117

1. A Sketch of the Future, 1958　［行政学における機能概念］ 122
2. “Function and Causality,” 1962　［機能と因果性］ 125
3. From Causality to Possibility: Neo-Kantianism, Phenomenology, and the Critique of Ontology 128
4. Scientific Concept Formation: Abstraction and Reality in Weber, Parsons, and Cassirer 133
- a. A Brief Prehistory of Abstraction and Concept Formation 133
- b. Max Weber and Talcott Parsons 135
- c. Cassirer on “Functional Equivalence” 137
5. Luhmann’s Adaptation of Functional Abstraction: Epoché and Substitution 140
6. Identity through Non-Identity: “Being-Otherwise,” Substitution, and the Functional Reference Point 142
7. The Society Without Qualities: Systems Theory as Counter-Ontology 145 ［1964 機能的方法とシステム理論］

1. The Concept of Ideology and Other Possibilities 157
2. Weber and Parsons on the Value Orientation of Action 160
3. Luhmann on Orientation 163
4. Ideology and Functional Equivalence 166
4. Dethroning the Sovereignty of Ends: Luhmann’s Critique of Weberian Bureaucracy 069
5. Formal Organizations 174
5. Normativity and Responsibility 178
6. Administering the Infinite: Roles, Rationality and Human Freedom 181