LEADER 03552nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910463109103321 005 20210423022608.0 010 $a0-8047-8727-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804787277 035 $a(CKB)2670000000397775 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035782 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11651996 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035782 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11032811 035 $a(PQKB)11097217 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1323081 035 $a(DE-B1597)563899 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804787277 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1323081 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10738818 035 $a(OCoLC)879553858 035 $a(OCoLC)1224278297 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000397775 100 $a20130806d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheory of society$b[electronic resource] $hVolume 2 /$fNiklas Luhmann ; translated by Rhodes Barrett 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2013 215 $aviii, 453 p 225 0$aCultural memory in the present 225 0 $aTheory of society ;$vv. 2 300 $a"Originally published in German under the title Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft." 311 0 $a0-8047-7159-6 311 0 $a0-8047-7160-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t4. Differentiation --$t5. Self-Descriptions --$tNotes --$tNotes --$tIndex to Volume 1 330 $aThis 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 A concluding chapter on the semantics of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the outdated theoretical approaches of "old Europe"?that is, to ontological, holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of society?and argues that concepts such as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. 606 $aSociology 606 $aSocial systems 606 $aCommunication 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aSocial systems. 615 0$aCommunication. 676 $a301 700 $aLuhmann$b Niklas$f1927-1998.$0118733 701 $aBarrett$b Rhodes$01033799 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463109103321 996 $aTheory of society$92452529 997 $aUNINA