LEADER 04388oam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910791846503321 005 20231130182730.0 010 $a1-282-99172-8 010 $a9786612991721 010 $a90-420-3258-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042032583 035 $a(CKB)2560000000061681 035 $a(EBL)668966 035 $a(OCoLC)704990622 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466650 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12212394 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466650 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10465791 035 $a(PQKB)10386052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668966 035 $a(OCoLC)704990622$z(OCoLC)781315580$z(OCoLC)816641164$z(OCoLC)961541469$z(OCoLC)962635095$z(OCoLC)986952903 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042032583 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668966 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10447244 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL299172 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000061681 100 $a20110209d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAddressing modernity $esocial systems theory and U.S. cultures /$fedited by Hannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aNew York :$cRodopi,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (365 pages) 225 0$aPostmodern studies ;$v45 311 0 $a90-420-3257-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tPreliminary Material --$tFrom National Cultures to the Semantics of Modern Society /$rHannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko --$tThe Emergence of Literature as Art and the Refinement of Literary Perspective /$rMartin Klepper --$tReading the Waste Land: Textuality, Mediality, Modernity /$rChristoph Reinfandt --$tBlack Boxes and White Noise. Don DeLillo and the Reality of Literature /$rEdgar Landgraf --$tWho is Afraid of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Absurd Democracy in the United States /$rHans Georg Moeller --$tThe Semantics of Self-Denial: The New American Studies through the Lens of Luhmann?s Social Systems Theory /$rMichael Boyden --$tNation of Speculation: The Constitution of a Financial Public in 19th Century America /$rUrs Staeheli --$tInstitutionalised Individualism. Parsons and Luhmann on American Society /$rGert Verschraegen --$tWhy Did Luhmann?s Social Systems Theory Find So Little Resonance in the United States of America? /$rRodrigo Jokisch --$tDrawing out the Reader: Tourism, Literature, Individuality /$rUlrich Brinkmann --$tSteps to an Ecology of Systems: Whole Earth and Systemic Holism /$rBruce Clarke --$tThe System in the Garden: American Studies and Functional Differentiation /$rAndrew McMurry --$tWorld-Systems Colliding: Thomas Pynchon and Niklas Luhmann /$rJoseph Tabbi --$tLuhmann, Literature, and American Multiculturalism /$rCarsten Schinko. 330 $aNiklas Luhmann?s theory of social systems is one of the most ambitious attempts to create a coherent account of global modernity. Primarily interested in the fundamental structures of modern society, however, Luhmann himself paid relatively little attention to regional variations. The aim of this book is to seek out modernity in one particular location: The United States of America. Gathering essays from a group of cultural and literary scholars, sociologists, and philosophers, Addressing Modernity reassesses the claims of American exceptionalism by setting them in the context of Luhmann?s conception of modernity, and explores how social systems theory can generate new perspectives on what has often been described as the first thoroughly modern nation. As a study of American society and culture from a Luhmannian vantage point, the book is of interest to scholars from both American Studies and social systems theory in general. 410 0$aPostmodern Studies$v45. 606 $aCivilization, Modern 606 $aSocial systems 606 $aCulture 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization 607 $aUnited States$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aCivilization, Modern. 615 0$aSocial systems. 615 0$aCulture. 676 $a306.0973 701 $aBergthaller$b Hannes$01476507 701 $aSchinko$b Carsten$01476508 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791846503321 996 $aAddressing modernity$93691200 997 $aUNINA