Theories of Distinction

Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity

By:

Niklas Luhmann

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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The essays in this volume formulate what is considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The first two essays deal with the modern European philosophical and scientific tradition. The next four essays concern the notion of observation as defined by Luhmann. They examine the history of paradox as a logical problem and as a historically conditioned feature of rhetoric; deconstruct the thinking of Jacques Derrida; discuss the usefulness of Spencer Brown's Laws of Form; and assess the consequences of observation and paradox for epistemology. The following essays present Luhmann's theory of communication and his articulation of the difference between thought and communication, a difference that makes clear one of Luhmann's most radical and controversial theses, that the individual not only does not form the basic element of society but is excluded from it altogether, situated instead in the environment of the social system.

Author Biography:

Niklas Luhmann was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. Stanford has published five other of his books, most recently The Reality of the Mass Media (2000)

Release date NZ

February 25th, 2002

Author

Niklas Luhmann

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by William Rasch

Pages

240

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

154x228x15

ISBN-13

9780804741231

Product ID

2510012

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