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Theories of distinction : redescribing the descriptions of modernity / Niklas Luhmann ; edited and introduced by William Rasch ; translations by Joseph O'Neil ... [and others].
LIBRA HM585 .L84 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Participant observation--Philosophy.
- Participant observation.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume by Germany' s leading social theorist of the late 20th century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Self-Positing Society / William Rasch 1
- Part I. Husserl, Science, Modernity
- 1. The Modern Sciences and Phenomenology 33
- 2. The Modernity of Science 61
- Part II. Paradox and Observation
- 3. The Paradox of Observing Systems 79
- 4. Deconstruction as Second-Order Observing 94
- 5. Identity
- What or How? 113
- 6. The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and the Reality That Remains Unknown 128
- Part III. Communication
- 7. What Is Communication? 155
- 8. How Can the Mind Participate in Communication? 169
- Part IV. Coda: "Not in Frankfurt"
- 9. I See Something You Don't See 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804741220
- 0804741239
- OCLC:
- 47717867
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