LUHMANN AND THE CONSEQUENCES - ON THE APPLICABILITY OF RECENT SYSTEM-THEORY TO ADULT-EDUCATION

To begin with, the author turns to a ''neglected debate'' by taking up the questions with which both LUHMANN and SCHORR have confronted pedagogics since the seventies and discusses their impact on adult education. In this, the question of the index difference and the reproach of a technological deficit are dealt with in detail. In the following, however, the author also discusses questions arising from the recently developed system-theoretical concept of autopoiesis, namely, the question of the possibility to intervene in autopoietical psychic and social systems, on the one hand, and the question of a didactics of life in adult education, on the other.