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Theory of Society, Volume 2
Niklas Luhmann
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Description for Theory of Society, Volume 2
Paperback. This is the second volume of the author's magnum opus, which offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution. Translator(s): Barrett, Rhodes. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 635.
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing press, and electronic media, as well as success media, such as money, power, truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity and make communication possible. The book asks what gives rise to functionally differentiated ... Read more
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing press, and electronic media, as well as success media, such as money, power, truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity and make communication possible. The book asks what gives rise to functionally differentiated ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
470
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804771603
SKU
V9780804771603
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About Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, was one of the most eminent social theorists of the last decades of the twentieth century. Stanford University Press has published a number of his books in English, most recently A Systems Theory of Religion (2012) and the first volume of Theory of Society (2012).
Reviews for Theory of Society, Volume 2
One of the masterpieces of social theory written after World War II.
Axel Honneth
Columbia University
Niklas Luhmann's membership in the canon of genuinely original and comprehensive social theorists is radiantly evident. Together with that of Simmel, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, and Parsons, his work stands as one of the monumental achievements of twentieth-century sociology. With ... Read more
Axel Honneth
Columbia University
Niklas Luhmann's membership in the canon of genuinely original and comprehensive social theorists is radiantly evident. Together with that of Simmel, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, and Parsons, his work stands as one of the monumental achievements of twentieth-century sociology. With ... Read more