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The crisis liberal democracy is facing today is a new challenge: the relation between alternative factuality and the unleashing of affective impulses is mediated by the transformation of the pre- existing structure of belief. There is an affective turn in the political realm—a realm structurally marked by collective sentiments and their non- relativizable nature. While the structural social and psychic setting of the functional differentiation of society remains unchanged, a crucial component of it has been strongly "affected" by a re-ordering of the function of belief within the cognitive dimension of social communication. In this crucial situation we need a new pedagogy of real-true worldliness to develop cognitive and doxic forms immune to the fakization of any deixis of the world, be it scientific, religious, or customary.

La centralisation et la redistribution sociale du produit monétaire dans les sociétés démocratiques modernes génèrent pour Luhmann une problé¬matique qui engage le droit et révèle ses paradoxes originaires. Emprun¬tant à une théorie assez éloignée de son propre style réflexif, Luhmann voit dans le « désir mimétique » (R. Girard) un champ de tension premier sur lequel le droit va s'enter et devenir indécidable. Dans un contexte de monétarisation généralisée, d'accessibilité universelle des biens par la monnaie et de redistribution centrale du pouvoir d'achat, la rivalité invidiaire se généralise et le partage des dotations se politise. Le droit fait place à une lutte politique, à une « violence » de laquelle il naît.

Niklas Luhmann's Das Recht der Gesellschaft : A New Sociology of Law ?
This article is a critical study of the latest work of Niklas Luhmann on law. It combines two efforts : a presentation of the work which concentrates on the theses of its various parts (sociological observation, function, coding and opening of law, justice, evolution, juridical argumentation, the relationship of law to politics, economy and psychic individuality) and tries to situate them within the evolution of Luhmann's work ; an inquiry to find out if systemism is able to deliver a sociology which can be exposed and develop in a systematic way on the one hand, and to suggest applied sociologies (of power, economy, law...) on the other, which would not be drowned by the abstraction of systemist conceptuality.