Irrtum und Irritation: für eine kleine Soziologie der Krise nach Foucault und Luhmann : = Error and irritation: towards a minor sociologyof crisis with Luhmann and Foucault

Zusammenfassung: Crisis frequently figures as a moment of truth in social science literature. In this paper we set out to challenge this long-standing understanding of the crisis and its connection to truth in both critical as well as positivistic accounts in the social sciences. By engaging with Michel Foucault’s understanding of error and Niklas Luhmann’s concept of irritation, we argue for an alternative or ‘minor’ sociology of crisis. Error and irritation are critical micro-events that disrupt social order and change the mode of perceiving the social. Yet, we want to challenge the idea that this disruptive power elucidates underlying structures of the social. We argue rather that error and irritation are critical moments for the production of truth and can thus become constitutive moments of the social retroactively. By placing erroneous and irritating micro-events at the center of Luhmann’s systems theory and Foucault’s analytics of power, these theories appear as analytical approaches that maintain a reflexive and affirmative relationship to the susceptibility of the social

Object Details

• Alternative title: Error and irritation: towards a minor sociologyof crisis with Luhmann and Foucault
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Irrtum und Irritation: für eine kleine Soziologie der Krise nach Foucault und Luhmann ; volume:7 ; number:1 ; pages:48-69

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Keyword: Systemtheorie ; Irrtum

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Folkers, Andreas ; Lim, Il-Tschung

Further information

• DOI: 10.6094/behemoth.2014.7.1.772
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-102740
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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