Paper's abstract

Jean Clam, Phenomenology and law in Niklas Luhmann's work. About the dephenomenalisation of sociology
The article attempts first to clarify an aspect of the relationship of Luhmann's systemic sociology to the phenomenology. It underlines the break with the phenomenological paradigm of the apprehension of meaning in the Luhmannian functionalism. It shows then how the classical vision of law, which is marked by the empathicism of the philosophical and sociological models of normativity, has been shaken. Law loses much of its expressivity and symbolicity. It is depolemized.

Key Words : Germany, Luhmann, sociology
t. 39, 1994 : p. 335-377

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