A atualidade do anti-humanismo teórico: Luhmann e Althusser frente à problemática da diferenciação/integração social

Abstract

As a reflection on the currentness of theoretical anti-humanism as a problem for contemporary social thought, we contrast the formulations of Althusserian Marxism with Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Systems - the one considered peripheral, which is recognized as legitimate in the sociological field - the regarding the way in which both, anchored in this epistemological position, forward their formulations and theoretical proposals with regard to the classic sociological question of social differentiation / integration. Therefore, at first, we situate anti-humanism in the face of the current sociological problem and the political configuration to which it is inserted. In a second step, we pass on to the authors in question, with the help of commentators: Althusserian Marxism and its structural proposal are analyzed and, soon after, the systems theory. Fleeing a necessary synthesis between them, we highlight their differences so that, based on the highlight of this plurality,