HUMAN RIGHTS
A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE
Keywords:
Human Rights, Luhmann., Systemic Theory, World SocietyAbstract
Niklas Luhmann is a German sociologist who created a very unique theory of society, a society made of communication instead of men. His ideas help us understand the Law in a holistic way, and can make us reach different and illuminating conclusions about the dynamics of law and other kinds of communication as politics. The goal of this article is to observe through the lenses of Luhmann’s theory the modern human rights regime. As explained below, human rights are seen in this article as a particular social mechanism uniting the legal and the political systems, making possible agency in both of this realms, leading to the conclusion of human rights being as a world constitution in Luhmann’s sense.
Keywords: Human Rights. Luhmann. Systemic Theory. World Society.
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