Description
Book SynopsisLuhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high competence threshold. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or by references to concepts presented elsewhere, readers inside and outside sociology get the required support to explore sociological systems theory and to engage with it. Luhmann himself, in his introduction, praises the form of the glossary to cope with the challenges of the theoretical description of our highly complex society.
Table of ContentsConvivial Futures?; One Step Beyond; From Lived Convivialism to Convivialist Transformations; The First Convivialist Steps; Feminism and Convivialism; Convivialism Facing the Territorial Question; Is Convivialism the Answer? Depends on the Question; Convivializing the Economy; Imagining the Convivialist Enterprise; Towards a Post-Covid Economy for the Common Good; Is a Post-Growth Society Possible?; Money Creation as a Foundational Tool for Convivialism; Pluriversalism and Nature: Conviviality to Reanimate the World; Convivial Conservation with Nurturing Masculinities in Brazil's Atlantic Forest; A Convivialist Solution for the Multiple Crisis of Biodiversity, Climate, and Public Health; The Post-Development Agenda; Letter to the End-of-the-World Generation; (Un-)Convivial Futures: Right Here, Right Now; "2050"; Once upon a Time ... There Will Be a Convivial Desire; A Reflection on 200 Years of Our Youngest Bodily Organ: Convivialis Futuris; List of Contributors.
