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The paper discusses the translations of Niklas Luhmann's works to Polish and presents social factors influencing their scope and nature. The findings are further interpreted in the light of a systemic theory of translations, based on the sociological concepts of Luhmann himself, as presented in the paper.
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THEORETISCHE ASPEKTE LITERARISCHER KOMMUNIKATION

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World Literature Studies
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2014
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vol. 6 (23)
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issue 3
22 – 33
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The article reflects on the possibilities of employing the term communication as a basic element of its theoretical constructions in the area of literary studies. The author´s departure point is the conviction that literary studies are able to accept impulses from the systems theory only on the condition of being aware of their own constructs, their own term literature. Only a theoretically confident literary scholarship, i.e., aware of its own theoretical traditions, is able to conduct a productive dialogue with the systems theory. Everything else is merely clueless theoretical imports that only mask the meaningless of own theorizing. The reference point of his reflections is the 1996 lecture by Niklas Luhmann “Literature as communication”. The author perceives this lecture as the starting point for the conceptualization of literature as communication and at the same time attempt to sketch the effects of such theorizing of literature on literary theory.
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KÁNON AKO FUNKCIA V AUTOREFLEXII SYSTÉMU LITERATÚRY

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Systems theory offers the opportunity to model communication as a principle of the self-organization of social systems. It is a tool for observing the mechanisms and principles of the construction of social reality made visible in acts of communication. Until the 1980s, systematic study of the canon was, in the German environment, inhibited by a traditional understanding of the canon, according to which the canon contained the best works. Since the overcoming of this idea, the study of the canon has become more differentiated as a part of the study of literature evaluation. The research of the mechanisms and components of the literary canon was becoming increasingly impotent in the literary scholarship of German-speaking countries in the n1980s; there is research about the historical background of its construction and its position in contemporary society. A certain consensus already exists, e.g. in the rejection of opinions that explain the construction of the canon through the aesthetic qualities of particular artistic works, as practised by Harold Bloom. On the contrary, the thinking about the canon converges in the idea that the canon reflects social conditions, group interests, etc. There are several varieties of social background-based canon formation; however, it is the textual aspects and the aesthetic qualities of texts that are undervalued as possible elements in the process of canonization, which is also typical for system-theoretical literary study in general, which accompanies and strongly influences canon research in Germany. The author ś reflections will develop primarily in the context of the systems theory developed by Niklas Luhmann and its application on the study of literature as an autopoietic system.
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Niklas Luhmann ś Systems Theory aims at describing a whole variety of social spheres by making use of a rather small terminological toolkit. Its fundamental theoretical notion is communication: all spheres, or rather “systems”, are described as being built upon communication. As a notion of primal importance in the architecture of Systems Theory, though, communication is conceived in a way distinct from common sense. For this special issue on Literary Communication, the following pages focus on this particular theoretical configuration of communication with a special regard to art and literature as a social system. It will be shown that phenomena of communication do not so much depend on a code rather they emerge out of the interaction of psychic systems, only subsequently having the evolutionary possibility of deploying codes for communication. The difference between distinctly coded modes of communication and less formal ones has some pertinence to the language of Systems Theory as well.
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The article focuses on the reconstruction of discourses on literary communication in the context of German literary studies. In German literary studies, discussions on literary communication mostly refer to Niklas Luhmann’s attempts to apply the systems theory to literary studies – i.e., the study of literature as a communication/social system. Luhmann’s reception in Germany is very divergent and has a transdisciplinary character. It is not easy to identify elements of systems theory in the cross-overs of literary studies and cultural and media studies. It seems meaningful to focus on the study of literary/aesthetic communication, which is, however, a long-term project. What we can offer here is only a few explorations to clarify the contribution of system-theory-oriented approaches in literary studies, or, alternatively, its limits. The problem is that in the situation when certain elements of the Luhmann’s theory are isolated and integrated into various literary studies projects, it is not possible to speak of systems-theory literary studies as a homogeneous stream with clear aims and methods.
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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’.
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The subject of the article is the theory of autopoietic systems, developed by the German sociologist and pedagogue Niklas Luhmann, at present one of the most interesting and most bearing variants of the general theory of systems. Luhmann understands the society not as an assemblage of people, but as an operative closed process of communication. Such an attitude sometimes wakes controversies because of its radical functional-cybernetic character of the theory and the terms applied (e.g. a man as a non-trivial machine). Contemporarily, the theory of autopoietic systems has been developed and modified in form of specific applications for social analyses in sociology and pedagogics. In the article, the possibilities and ways of pedagogical working in such a specifically comprehended social reality are showed and discussed critically. The paper consists of five parts: Education as a kind of communication among autopoietic mental systems; Education and sociology; Code of education; Child as a medium of education; Technology of education.
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This reflection begins with a scandal: In 2007 Martin Mosebach the recent prize-winner of the prestigious Georg-Büchner-Preis provoked a public outcry with his thesis comparing Saint-Just, Büchner and Himmler for their dealing with violence in giving ideological excuses. It shows how extreme interpretation can be. Especially Georg Büchner´s Danton’s Tod is since its existence a battle field of ideological standpoints between left and right concerning Georg Büchner’s sight towards revolutionary action and the needs and risks of violence. Up to our days we can see that ideological battle in the first discussions about the Marburger Ausgabe (the critical edition of Büchner’s literal work in 2000) and the crucial edition of Danton’s Tod. There it is shown once more how different the same literal communication can be interpreted and judged especially if it is focused on a single item like the speech of St. Just in II, 7 as a standpoint of the author himself – pro or contra violence. We should transparently control our methods without cutting new and creative approaches. Methods more close to the text and methods more focused on history of ideas, historical and social contexts could deliver an answer how Georg Büchner wanted to show the problems of terror in avoiding old ideological discussions. The sociological approaches like Niklas Luhmann ́s theory of systems and Jan and Aleida Assmann ́s theory of collective (social) memory deliver a good framework helping to show changes in the shapes of production, reception and interpretation. In the view of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of systems the French Revolution marks the turning point towards a modern functionally orientated society.
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