Between social science and cognitive science: Gunther Teubner on fundamental rights
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Autopoiesis, Fundamental Rights, Luhmann, Social Systems, TeubnerAbstract
Teubner’s theory of law and fundamental rights, between social science and cognitive science, originates in the transfer of the neurobiological notion of autopoiesis to the domain of social science in the social systems theory of Niklas Luhmann. This transfer involves the fundamental reconsideration of the framework of classical sociology for the analysis of society and social life. The further Teubnerian development of social systems theory arises from the consideration of the social reality of the legal person: the character and position of the legal person within the autopoietic social system of law. For Teubner, the legal person is the creation of the internal communicative processes of the legal system. As a communicative effect, the legal subject reveals that the operation of law, as an autopoietic social subsystem has a dynamic, expansive character. The negative effects of this general expansive dynamic lead to the thematization of fundamental rights as transnational fundamental rights.
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