Syftet med att analysera Niklas Radstrom roman Ängel bland skuggor ur ett narratologiskt perspektiv ar att undersoka vilka narrativa grepp Radstrom har anvant nar han forfattat romanen, hur han har anvant dem och hur det paverkar lasningen av romanen. Syftet ar ocksa att larare och elever ska kunna anvanda uppsatsen som ett verktyg for att upptacka infallsvinklar de kan anvanda i ett arbete med romanen, bade vad galler innehall och form. Jag kommer i uppsatsen att avsloja Ängel bland skuggors upplosning. Om en eventuell lasare av denna uppsats inte har last romanen ar det viktigt att tanka pa. De narratologiska aspekter som anvands i analysen av romanen ar framfor allt intrig, karaktarer, miljo, tid, berattare och berattelsenivaer. Aven Radstroms anvandning av Orfeusmyten som grund for berattelsens skeende kommer analyseras. Exempel pa teman som tas upp i romanen ar utanforskap och utsatthet, karlek och spraket som villkor for manniskans existens. Radstrom anvander miljo for att forstarka karaktarernas situation; bland annat befinner sig utsatta manniskor som lever i samhallets marginal i fororten, och skildringen av ett framgangsrikt men ocksa ytligt liv utspelar sig i Stockholms innerstad. Ängel bland skuggors intrig skiftar i tid, de olika karaktarernas nutid och bakgrund skildras om vartannat for att bygga upp karaktarerna till nyanserade och sammansatta karaktarer .

This thesis intends to be a contribution both to the sociological analysis of law and to the analysis of regulatory approaches of biodiversity conservation. In particular, and on the one hand, I intend to contribute to a better understanding of the regulatory trilemma of ecosystems conservation in the context of the local implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (the ´CBD´). Specifically, I examine how local legal systems utilize traditional regulatory instruments, and particularly traditional property rights, in order to implement the ecosystems conservation -or in-situ conservation- measures of the CBD. On the other hand, I intend to develop an understanding of the reflexive or non-exclusionary nature of law, on the basis of the general theory of society of Niklas Luhmann. This will entail the development of an understanding of the reflexive form of law, which in turn will, first, allow us to go beyond the Weberian dichotomy between form and substance and, second, allow us to assess the varying degrees of social reflexivity –or reflexive capacity- of different legal forms. These theoretical developments will then be combined with Gunther Teubner´s post-regulatory approach known as reflexive law, which will allow us to explore general mechanisms for enhancing mutual observation and interference between law and society that, in turn, will be expressed on new forms of law that should have a higher reflexive capacity to tackle the limits of regulatory law. Furthermore, in the context of my analysis of reflexive law, I will propose an understanding of Teubner´s idea of interference –and of the encompassing idea of direct contact between law and society- by reference to Maturana´s and Hejl´s ideas on the relational and social domain, and to Bankowsky’s notion of transitional spaces, that should allow observing or better observing the interactions between law and different spheres of society. These theoretical understandings will allow me to better analyse the regulatory trilemma of ecosystems conservation and, particularly, better assess the limitations of the legal form of traditional property rights as a regulatory instrument for ecosystem´s conservation. This will show that these property rights are predominantly reflexive to the observations of the economic sphere but not to the observations of other social spheres. This analysis and critique will be mainly focused on ownership but, as will be shown, it will also apply to other traditional property rights such as easements and servitudes. Finally, it will be on the basis of all these understandings and considerations that I will propose and assess the creation of a new property right - the conservation property right- as a reflexive law mechanism that should allow broader social interaction amongst different spheres of society for the purpose of better tackling the regulatory trilemma of ecosystems conservation.

Lo, Kai Ching. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-221). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement --- p.vi / Abstract --- p.viii / INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter I. --- The Problem: A Brief Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter I.a. --- Research Problems --- p.1 / Chapter I.b. --- The Subject Matters --- p.2 / Chapter I.e. --- Conceptualization of the Subject Matters --- p.3 / Chapter I.d. --- "The Orientation of the Research: Habermas, Luhmann, and Theory" --- p.6 / Chapter I.e. --- Outline of the Research Result --- p.13 / Chapter II. --- The Context --- p.17 / Chapter II.a. --- Ethics and Morality in Modern Society --- p.17 / Chapter II.b. --- Ethics and Morality in Sociology --- p.19 / Chapter II.b.l. --- Durkheim and Weber: Conception of Ethics and Morality --- p.20 / Chapter II.b.2. --- Successions and Revisions of Durkheim's and Weber's Perspectives --- p.25 / Chapter II.b.3. --- Habermas's and Luhmann's Breakthrough --- p.29 / Chapter III. --- The Framework --- p.31 / Chapter III.a. --- The Use of Metatheory --- p.31 / Chapter III.b. --- The Limitation of this thesis --- p.33 / Chapter PART I. --- HABERMAS AND LUHMANN AS THE EXEMPLARS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRIES OF ETHICS AND MORALITY --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Habermas's Discourse Ethics and The Theory of Communicative Action --- p.37 / Chapter 1.1. --- Discourse Ethics --- p.38 / Chapter 1.1.1. --- Discourse Ethics as the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.40 / Chapter 1.1.2. --- The Logic of Discourse Ethics --- p.46 / Chapter 1.1.3. --- Morality and Ethical Life: From Philosophy and Politics to Sociology --- p.53 / Chapter 1.2. --- The Theory of Communicative Action: The Sociological Foundation of Discourse Ethics --- p.61 / Chapter 1.2.1. --- The Paradox of Rationalization and the Paradigmatic Change --- p.63 / Chapter 1.2.2. --- Universal Pragmatics: The Foundation of Moral Order --- p.65 / Chapter 1.2.3. --- Communicative Rationality and the Life world: The Redemption of Moral Order --- p.71 / Chapter 1.2.4. --- Communicative Action and Strategic Action: The Possibility of Immorality --- p.75 / Chapter 1.2.5. --- Ideal Speech Situation: The Unavoidable Cognitive and Normative Condition of Social Life --- p.78 / Chapter 1.3. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.81 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- : Luhmann's The Code of the Moral and Systems Theory --- p.84 / Chapter 2.1. --- The Code of the Moral --- p.84 / Chapter 2.1.1. --- The Code of the Moral as the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.86 / Chapter 2.1.2. --- Features of the Code of the Moral --- p.91 / Chapter 2.2. --- Systems Theory: Approaching a Non-normative Social Order --- p.100 / Chapter 2.2.1. --- Complexity and Binary Schematism: The Basic Settings of the World --- p.101 / Chapter 2.2.2. --- The Theory of Observation and Self-Reference: The Epistemological and Ontological Foundation of Systems Theory --- p.107 / Chapter 2.2.3. --- System/Environment Distinction and Autopoiesis: A New Conception of System --- p.117 / Chapter 2.2.4. --- Communication and Action: An Amoral Interpretation --- p.122 / Chapter 2.2.5. --- Double Contingency and Interpenetration: From Patterned Moral Order to Reflexive Amoral Order --- p.130 / Chapter 2.3. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.139 / Chapter PART II. --- FORMATION OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF ETHICS AND MORALITY: A METATHEORETICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN HABERMAS AND LUHMANN --- p.142 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- A Comparison between Habermas and Luhmann --- p.144 / Chapter 3.1. --- On Subject and the Individual --- p.144 / Chapter 3.1.1. --- On Subject --- p.144 / Chapter 3.1.2. --- On Human Individual --- p.146 / Chapter 3.2. --- On Communication and Action --- p.151 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- The Role of Language in Communication and Action --- p.154 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- The Meaning of Understanding in Communication and Action --- p.156 / Chapter 3.3. --- On Meaning and Value --- p.160 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- On Meaning --- p.160 / Chapter 3.3.2. --- On Value --- p.163 / Chapter 3.4. --- On Ethics and Morality --- p.169 / Chapter 3.4.1. --- Presuppositions --- p.170 / Chapter 3.4.2. --- Methodologies --- p.174 / Chapter 3.4.3. --- The Subject Matters and Their Level of Analysis --- p.179 / Chapter 3.4.4. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.183 / Chapter 3.5. --- On Humanism and Enlightenment --- p.184 / Chapter 3.6. --- On Society --- p.189 / Chapter 3.6.1. --- Identity and Difference --- p.189 / Chapter 3.6.2. --- The Constitution of Social Order --- p.191 / Chapter 3.6.3. --- Lifeworld and System --- p.192 / Chapter 3.6.4. --- "Rationality, Morality, and Normality" --- p.193 / Chapter 3.6.5. --- Descriptions of Modern Society --- p.196 / Chapter 3.7. --- The Nature of Sociology --- p.200 / Chapter 3.7.1. --- Methodology --- p.200 / Chapter 3.7.2. --- Sociology and Society --- p.201 / Chapter 3.8. --- Social Implications --- p.203 / Chapter 3.9. --- Concluding Remarks: Metatheoretical Reflections on the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.206 / Concluding Reflections: Prospects for the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.210 / Bibliography --- p.214

Ce travail propose une analyse comparative des sociologies de Pierre Bourdieu et de Niklas Luhmann face au thème de la mort de l'art. Ce que nous nous proposons de faire ici, c'est un travail sociologique théorique qui examine le concept de la mort de l'art en faisant une analyse comparative de la sociologie de l'art de Pierre Bourdieu et celle de Niklas Luhmann. Tel que mentionné, il s'agit ici d'examiner comment chacune se mesure au thème de la mort de l'art et comment leurs répliques s'inscrivent dans la tradition sociologique. Le travail débute avec une présentation des déclarations de la mort de l'art au sein de la théorie sociale, notamment celles de Hegel et de Adorno. Ensuite, la présentation des sociologies de l'art de Pierre Bourdieu et de Niklas Luhmann a lieu. Nous terminons avec une analyse comparative des sociologies de l'art de Bourdieu et de Luhmann face au thème de la mort de l'art. Ce travail nous aide à percevoir des différences et des similitudes entre la théorie des champs sociaux et la théorie systémique et à voir en quoi les deux auteurs ont tenté de se défaire de l'idéologie en se basant sur l'analyse de la différenciation sociale. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Luhmann, Bourdieu, Théorie des sytèmes autopoïétiques, Différenciation sociale, Mort de l'art, Champs sociaux, Sociologie de l'art.

Diss.--Ph.--Kiel--Christian Albrechts-Univ., 1996.

Diss.--München, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. [363]-382. Index.

Publié au préalable comme thèse : Universiẗat Diss. : Paderborn : 1996.

Zugl.: Hagen, Fernuniv., Diss., 2006

Diss.--Abt. Rechtswissenschaften--Florenz--Europäisches Hochschulinstitut, 1989-1990.

Frankfurt (Oder), Univ., Diss., 2003.