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If contingency, as it inheres in second-order observation, is the one pillar of reflexive politics, self-reference is the other. It is not surprising that I will seek to establish what it means for politics to be self-referential from within systems-theory; but I will attempt this analysis in a way that is novel in two respects. I will talk about self-reference in a way that makes politics self-referential as only love is. And second, I will treat self-reference not as a limiting condition for politics, as that which underpins its closure, but as the liberating moment, as that which allows its reflexivity. Both these arguments are internally linked and mutually constitutive.
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Christodoulidis, E.A. (1998). Politics ‘as passion’ [Reflexivity as self-reference]. In: Law and Reflexive Politics. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3967-0_20
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