Luhmann e a Desconstrução

S. Guerra Filho, Willis, ‘Luhmann and Derrida: Immunology and Autopoiesis’ in Luhmann Observed:  Radical Theoretical Encounters, edited by A. La Cour and A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012.

Editors´ Introduction

“Luhmann’s understanding of politics as representative of just one functional system among others, without privileged status to observe the totality of society, remains a continuous inspiration for the observation of society’s complexity and multicentrality. In Luhmann and Derrida: Autopoiesis and Immunology, Willis S. Guerra Filho discusses the impossibilities of a world society as constitutionally grounded. Luhmann’s concept of the world society, namely a systemically understood globalisation characterised by hyper complexity and multicentrality, structural couplings between systems are instrumental. Guerra Filho focuses on the structural coupling between the legal and the political one and how they maintain their stability and growth in their environment simultaneously with each other yet independently of each other. The two are connected through a State Constitution, namely a particular medium of operative closeness. Constitutional Supreme Courts ultimately define what is to be seeing as constitutionally grounded. These courts become then co-responsible with the operation of the binary code of both systems, that is to say, the lawful or non-lawful code in the case of legal system and the government or opposition in the case of political system. This structure becomes significantly enriched when one reads Luhmann in combination to Derrida’s concept of auto-immunity, a deconstructive sort of closure that is also an aporia. Through a careful reading of both theories, the chapter reaches nothing short of a paradigm shift that requires a new consideration of systemic violence in view of the manifest inability of politics to maintain the structures of society as promised”.

From the Introduction by Anders La Cour and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (eds.)

Luhmann and Derrida: Immunology and Autopoiesis

Willis S. Guerra Filho 

Full Professor, Law School at the Federal University of State Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 

Dr. jur. (Bielefeld University, Germany) 

Dr. phil. (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)