Is It Possible to Observe Society in Its Totality? Niklas Luhmann as Perseus and Medusa as Society by A. Yu. Antonovskiy

“…Such inclu- sion of “Self-Description” (“shorthand”, “scene description”) in the corpus of social theory, as its integral and equal part with the function of describing the formation, semantics and theoretical resources of the theory of society itself, has become an important theoretical innovation in the field of social theory.…”
Get full text

Ideological Apparatuses of Shari’a and Reproduction of Domination: A Critique on the Book The Circles of Fear by Reza Najafzadeh

“…This article reviews Abu Zaid’s views critically in five parts: Abu Zaid and critical theory of society; reconstruction of reawakening discourse and the history of Etzali belief; women in crisis discourse, the ideology of language and the production of domination; the defeat and historical decline and critique of anti-woman practices and discourses on the eve of the transition to the information age; and the critique of the commodification of women.…”
Get full text