Volume 8, Number 1
November 2012
Special Issue “Luhmann’s Relation to and Relevance for Constructivist Approaches”, edited by Alexander Riegler & Armin Scholl
Cover Art: “Kleine Brug,” mixed media on wood, 70 x 55 cm, by Manu Vandereycken
© 2005 courtesy of the artist,
photograph © 2012 by Yu Chen
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Niklas Luhmann and the Sociological Turn in Constructivism
Between Realism and Constructivism? Luhmann’s Ambivalent Epistemological Standpoint
Who Observes? An Appropriate Theory of Observation is in Demand (Open Peer Commentary)
What Exists between Realism and Constructivism? (Open Peer Commentary)
Author’s Response: What Constructivism Does not Say (Open Peer Commentary)
Luhmann and the Constructivist Heritage: A Critical Reflection
A Circular Comment on Luhmann as a Question Generator (Open Peer Commentary)
On Reading and Critiquing Luhmann (Open Peer Commentary)
Multiple Environments!? (Open Peer Commentary)
The Complexity of Environment in Social Systems Theory (Open Peer Commentary)
Authors’ Response: Systems, Environments, and the Body (Open Peer Commentary)
Why Culture? (Open Peer Commentary)
Author’s Response: Culture Matters (Open Peer Commentary)
Symbolically Generalized Communication Media: A Category Mistake? (Open Peer Commentary)
Some Reflections on Meaning (Open Peer Commentary)
Communication Emerging? On Simulating Structural Coupling in Multiple Contingency
Is Communication Emerging or Sui Generis? (Open Peer Commentary)
Communication Without Emergence? (Open Peer Commentary)
Author’s Response: Systems as Realities Sui Generis with Eigenbehavior? (Open Peer Commentary)
Regular Section
The Game of Fictional Mathematics. Review of “Mathematics and Reality” by Mary Leng
Publication Review. Recent Books and Articles Related to Constructivist Approaches