OD LITERÁRNEJ KOMUNIKÁCIE K LITERÁRNEMU SYSTÉMU. „SYSTÉM“ A „POZOROVATEĽ“: DVA KĽÚČOVÉ KONCEPTY (BUDÚCEJ) LITERÁRNEJ VEDY

• Authors: Siegfried J. Schmidt

Title variants

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From literary communication to literary system. ‘System’ and ‘Observer’: two key concepts in (future) literary studies

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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General systems theory has offered various options about how to conceptualise systems. Opposing Luhmann’s narrow conception of system, the author proposes to combine systems- and actor theoretical approaches in order to model social systems (including literature) as nonlinear, interrelated complexes of systems where causal structures depend – among other things – upon the decision of goal-oriented subsystems, namely actors whose sociality is introduced into the system via culture. The second part of this chapter is devoted to some consequences arriving from the observer problem; e.g. the mutual construction of system and environment, the relation observer: meaning vis a vis the operational closure of cognitive systems, and a constructivist reading of the concept of the ‘empirical’.

Keywords

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LITERARY COMMUNICATION; LITERARY SYSTEM; GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY; OBSERVER; NIKLAS LUHMANN; CONSTRUCTIVISM

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6 (23)
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 5 – 21

Contributors

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Siegfried J. Schmidt

• Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Universität Münster, Bispinghof 9-14 D-48143 Münster, Germany