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Begegnungen im Vorraum der Macht. Carl Schmitt und Niklas Luhmann

  • Leander Scholz
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 21. Juni 2011
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Abstract

Following Carl Schmitt′s diagnosis that the area of politics is becoming diffuse, this article analyses the transformation of the relationship between the powerholders and the subordinates under the condition of an increasing numbers of observers representing a powerful factor in their own right. In the perspective of Schmitt this factor threatens the relation of protection and obedience and therefore the whole fundament of politics. By contrast this article understands the system theory of power by Niklas Luhmann as an answer to the problem: including the observers in the process of the execution of power and transforming them into managers of political risk renders the reproduction of power possible under the condition of increasing observation.

Published Online: 2011-06-21
Published in Print: 2011-06

© by Akademie Verlag, Weimar, Germany

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