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記述言語：日本語   掲載種別：研究論文（大学，研究機関等紀要）   出版者・発行元：京都大学大学院文学研究科社会学研究室  

A purpose of this article is to articulate what Niklas Luhmann's political theory attempted by critically reviewing Stefan Lange's Niklas Luhmanns Theorie der Politik: Eine Abklärung der Staatsgesellschaft, 2003. In part 2 of this article, the author examines Lange's evaluation that Luhmann's argument contains normative biases, especially a preference for functional differentiation behind his valuational diagnoses and advice to concrete political practices, and therefore fails his coherent systems theory and "scientific" discussion. The author conversely argues that Luhmann's argument does not deviate from his framework and scientific discussion for the following reasons. First, Luhmann not only evaluates functional differentiation as a form compatible to more massive complexity than others but also he pointed out its negative consequences, such as escalating ecological destruction, alienation of human beings from society, etc. Therefore, he does not normatively prefer functional differentiation. Second, Luhmann's frameworks such as evolutionary theory and that of operational closure are not incompatible to giving valuation and advice but that the latter is embedded in former. On the one hand, his evolutionary theory contains valuational aspects in terms of both the positive function of certain "evolutionary achievement" as problem solving and its negative consequence that may promote further evolutionary processes. On the other hand, the idea of operational closure never excludes giving advice as a form of "structural coupling" between scientific and political systems. Third, Luhmann's valuational diagnoses and advice to political practice does not deviate from Max Weber's argument on "scientific criticism of value judgments." Luhmann analyzes other factual possibilities of political practices and he evaluates the factual function or effectiveness of political practice for such political systems based on an idea of the plurality of "system reference." Furthermore, he examines the question how far certain practice accommodates the given conditions of a political system and is realizable. This "realistic" view in evaluation is compatible to the scientific condition that Weber argued. For these reasons, Luhmann's argument is not deviant from his systems theory and general scientific discussion. The article concludes that Luhmann attempted to construct scientific and practical political theory that can evaluate certain political practices without adopting certain normative evaluation scales.

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記述言語：日本語   掲載種別：研究論文（大学，研究機関等紀要）   出版者・発行元：京都大学大学院文学研究科社会学研究室  

The purpose of this article is to gauge the objectives and scope of Niklas Luhmann's theory of political systems through a critical review of a 2003 book by Stefan Lange entitled Niklas Luhmanns Theorie der Politik: Eine Abklärung der Staatsgesellschaft (Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag). In his book Lange attempts to compare Luhmann's arguments with other western arguments on politics more comprehensively than before and to grasp alterations in nuance in his arguments with greater detail through a diachronic periodization of Luhmann's political theory into three phases: 1960-70(Phase I), to 1980( Phase II), and to 1990-(Phase III). His theses can be divided into two assumptions. First, through his theory of functional differentiation and skepticism of "political control" Luhmann attempted to criticize and work against traditional ideas of "political society" and "state society (Staatsgesellschaft)" assuming that politics, especially state politics, as the center or top of society works to control other societal areas. Second, this adversarial tendency which appears especially in his critical diagnosis of the welfare state is derived not only from his scientific empirical insights of modern society, but also from his normative preference for the protection of a functionally differentiated society from the threat of political imperialism and its tendency of dedifferentiation. Lange calls it "normativism of differentiation". The first thesis seems to be less arguable, but the second one must be examined more critically. In Part 1 of this article his first thesis will be reviewed and in some points critically examined. In a diachronic analysis of Luhmann's political theory, Lange pointed out that his position shifted from an oscillation between control skepticism and optimistic reformism to radical skepticism that neglect possibility to control other systems in the wake of his "autopoietic turn" at the beginning of 1980s. This is a discontinuity between phases I and II. Luhmann's terminology changed but it can be pointed out that his position did not substantially change, and there was more continuity.

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