In conjunction with a wide-reaching and ambitious diagnosis of our time, Gunther Teubner develops a complex conceptual framework in social theory, based notably on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction. To scrutinize more precisely his way of working with theories not only could be beneficial to theoretical scholarship in social sciences. It also could provide material for reflections on the relationship between social systems and individual consciousness, a topic approached at several occasions in the work of Gunther Teubner, and in particular in Constitutional Fragments. A topic, however, which would deserve much deeper a discussion, given its relevance for the understanding of Constitutionalization processes. In this paper we will attempt to apply concepts which can be derived from the work of Teubner for a tentative interpretation of the historical development of citizenship.

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Systems Theory,Communication,Consciousness,Science