Examples of Literature Relating to ISTC 2019:

  • Stefan Breuer (1987), "Adorno, Luhmann: Konvergenzen und Divergenzen von Kritischer Theorie und Systemtheorie,“ Leviathan 15 (1) 91-125.
  • William Rasch (1991), "Theories of Complexity, Complexities of Theory: Habermas, Luhmann, and the Study of Social Systems," German Studies Review 14 (1) (February), pp. 65-83.
  • Harro Müller and Larson Powell (1994), "Luhmann's Systems Theory as a Theory of Modernity," New German Critique, No. 61, Special Issue on Niklas Luhmann (Winter), pp.39-54.
  • Gerhard Wagner (1994), "Am Ende der systemtheoretischen Soziologie: Niklas Luhmann und die Dialektik," Zeitschrift für Soziologie 23 (4) (August), pp. 275-291.
  • Eva Knodt (1994), "Toward a Non-Foundationalist Epistemology: The Habermas/Luhmann Controversy Revisited," New German Critique, No. 61, Special Issue on Niklas Luhmann (Winter), pp.77-100.
  • Frank Welz (2001), "Das Rechtsverständnis in der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns," Moral und Recht im Diskurs der Moderne: Zur Legitimation gesellschaftlicher Ordnung, ed. Guenter Dux and Frank Welz (pp.381-397).
  • Uta Gerhardt (2002), "Worlds Come Apart: Systems Theory versus Critical Theory. Drama in the History of Sociology in the Twentieth Century,"  The American Sociologist 33 (2) (Summer), pp. 5-39.
  • Elke Wagner (2005), "Gesellschaftskritik und soziologische Aufklärung: Konvergenzen und Divergenzen zwischen Adorno und Luhmann,“ Berliner Journal für Soziologie 15 (1) 37–54.
  • John Rundell (2007), "Modernity, Contingency, Dissonance:  Luhmann contra Adorno, Adorno contra Luhmann," in Moderne begreifen:  Zur Paradoxie eines sozio-aesthetischen Deutungsmusters, eds. Christine Magerski, Robert Savage, Christine Weller.
  • Sunnie Lee Watson and William R. Watson (2011), "Critical, Emancipatory, and Pluralistic Research for Education: A Review of Critical Systems Theory," Journal of Thought 46 (3-4) (Fall-Winter), pp. 63-77.
  • Sunnie Lee Watson and William R. Watson (n.d.), "Critical Systems Theory for Qualitative Research Methodology" (http://www.academia.edu/10400891/Critical_Systems_Theory_for_Qualitative_Research_Methodology)
  • Andreas Fischer-Lescano (2011), "Critical systems theory," Philosophy and Social Criticism.
  • Michael Thompson (2012), "Talcott Parsons and the Logic of Critical Social Theory" Situations 4 (2): 141-168.
  • Smail Rapic (2012), Subjektive Freiheit und Soziales System:  Positionen der kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie von Rousseau bis zur Habermas/Luhmann-Kontroverse (Alber).
  • Urs Stäheli (2012), "The Hegemony of Meaning: Is There an Exit to Meaning in Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory?" Revue Internationale de Philosophie 66 (259) (1), NIKLAS LUHMANN, pp. 105-122.
  • Marc Amstutz und Andreas Fischer-Lescano (eds.) (2013), Kritische Systemtheorie: Zur Evolution einer normativen Theorie.
  • Nicklas Baschek (2014), "»Engagement ist Mangel an Talent.« Zur Entkernung der Kritik in der Kritischen Systemtheorie und dem Postfundamentalismus," Leviathan 42 (4), pp. 494-507.
  • Laurindo Dias Minhoto and Guilherme Gonçalves (ed.) (2015), Systems Theory and Social Critique:  A Special Issue of Tempo Social -- with contributions by the Minhoto and Gonçalves, Brunkhorst, Fischer-Lescano, Moeller, Teubner, Waizbort, and others.
  • Kolja Möller und Jasmin Siri (eds.) (2016), Systemtheorie und Gesellschaftskritik: Perspectiven der Kritischen Systemtheorie.
  • Steffen Roth (2016), "Growth and function. A viral research program for next organisations," International Journal of Technology Management 72 (4), pp. 269-309.
  • Laurindo Dias Minhoto (2017), "Notes on Luhmann, Adorno, and the critique of neoliberalism," Thesis Eleven, 143(1) 56–69.
  • Hans-Georg Moeller and Mario Wenning (eds.) (2017), Contemporary Perspectives on Critical Theory and Social Systems Theory, Special Issue of Thesis Eleven -- with contributions by Jurgen Habermas, Agnes Heller, Elena Esposito, Hans-Georg Moeller, Alexei Procyshyn and others.
  • Ilaria Riccioni (2018), "Society as a collective body. Styles of embodiment in the arts as symptoms of social change," in Scarinzi A. (ed.) Recasting Aesthetic Experience: Emotions and the “Continuity Principle”.
  • Harry F. Dahms (2018), “Critical Theory Derailed: Paradigm Fetishism and Critical Liberalism in Honneth (and Habermas),” in Volker Schmitz (ed.), Axel Honneth and the Future of Critical Theory
  • Ilaria Riccioni (2018), "Art, Capitalist Markets and Society. Insights and Reflections on Contemporary Art", in Art and the Challenge of Markets, Vol. 2, Chapter 4, eds. Victoria D. Alexander, S. Hägg, S. Häyrynen and E. Sevänen (London, Springer Nature; Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Steffen Roth (in press), Heal the world. A solution-focused systems therapy approach to environmental problems, Journal of Cleaner Production.