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Theory of Society, Volume 2
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Theory of Society, Volume 2 Hardback - 2013

by Niklas Luhmann; Rhodes Barrett (Translator)

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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 social systems, how they evolve, and how social movements, organizations, and patterns of interaction emerge. The advent of the computer and its networks, which triggered potentially far-reaching processes of restructuring, receives particular attention. A concluding chapter on the semantics of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the outdated theoretical approaches of "old Europe"--that is, to ontological, holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of society--and argues that concepts such as "the nation," "the subject," and "postmodernity" are vastly overrated. In their stead, "society"--long considered a suspicious term by sociologists, one open to all kinds of reification--is defined in purely operational terms. It is the always uncertain answer to the question of what comes next in all areas of communication.

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  • Title Theory of Society, Volume 2
  • Author Niklas Luhmann; Rhodes Barrett (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 472
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press
  • Publication date 2013-08-21
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804771597 / 0804771596
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012021883
  • Dewey Decimal Code 301

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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).

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