Introduction

Luhmann encountered

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Anders la Cour

1-15

Contingency, reciprocity, the other, and the other in the other Luhmann–Lacan, an encounter

Jean Clam

19-37

Luhmann's ontology

William Rasch

38-59

The autopoietic fold

critical autopoiesis between Luhmann and Deleuze

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

60-81

Gendering Luhmann

the paradoxical simultaneity of gender equality and inequality

Christine Weinbach

85-107

Luhmann, all too Luhmann

Nietzsche, Luhmann and the human

Todd Cesaratto

108-134

Only connect

Luhmann and bioethics

Sharon Persaud

135-149

Spatiality, imitation, immunization

Luhmann and Sloterdijk on the social

Christian Borch

150-168

Limits of interpretation, closure of communication

Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann observing texts

Elena Esposito

171-184

Organizations, institutions and semantics

systems theory meets institutionalism

Anders la Cour, Holger Højlund

185-202

Luhmann and Koselleck

conceptual history and the diagnostics of the present

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

203-224

Luhmann and Derrida

immunology and autopoiesis

Willis Santiago, Guerra Filho, Pablo Ghetti

227-242

In the multiverse what is real?

Luhmann, complexity and ant

Barbara Mauthe, Thomas E. Webb

243-262

Luhmann and Marx

social theory and social freedom

Chris Thornhill

263-283

Afterword

Anders la Cour, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

284-288