How the Law Thinks: Toward a Constructivist Epistemology of Law
SELF-ORGANIZATION: PORTRAIT OF A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION. SOCIOLOGY OF THE SCIENCES: A YEARBOOK, Wolfgang Krohn, Günter Küppers and Helga Nowotny, eds., Vol. XIV, Kluwer, Boston, pp. 87-113, 1990,
Law and Society Review, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 727-757, 1989
31 Pages Posted: 18 Apr 2006 Last revised: 8 Sep 2009
Date Written: 1989
Abstract
I. Jabberwocky II. Discourse and Autopoiesis III. Jürgen Habermas: Intersubjectivity and Consensus IV. Michel Foucault: Discourse and Epistème V. Niklas Luhmann: Constructivism and Autopoiesis VI. Law - An Epistemic Subject? VII. The Epistemic Trap VIII.Escape Routes
Keywords: legal theory, system theory
JEL Classification: K10, K40
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