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Notes on Luhmann, Adorno, and the critique of neoliberalism

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Autor(es):
Minhoto, Laurindo Dias
Número total de Autores: 1
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: THESIS ELEVEN; v. 143, n. 1, p. 56-69, DEC 2017.
Citações Web of Science: 0
Assunto(s):Neoliberalismo   Dialética
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This article discusses some possibilities for a critical interpretation of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory. On the one hand, this theory could provide a sophisticated new sociological account of well-known modern social pathologies, such as alienation and reification; on the other, it could be considered a crypto-normative model for the reciprocal mediation between system and environment in which neither blind tautologies nor colonizations would take place. I argue that as a normative model this theoretical matrix seems to resonate with aspects of Adorno's negative dialectics between subject and object and that the involuntary promise it contains could be fully realized only under other social conditions. The article also presents a preliminary critique of neoliberalism reconceptualized in systems theoretical terms as a dedifferentiation machinery that aims at establishing the primacy of economic rationality and the formation of industries' in different social spheres. (AU)

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Beneficiário:Laurindo Dias Minhoto
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