Addressing modernity : social systems theory and U.S. cultures / edited by Hannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergthaller, Hannes.

Schinko, Carsten.

Series:

Postmodern studies ; 45.

Postmodern studies ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Civilization.

United States--Study and teaching.

Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998.

Luhmann, Niklas.

Civilization, Modern.

Social systems.

Physical Description:

366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

Contents:

Introduction : from national cultures to the semantics of modern society / Hannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko

The emergence of literature as art and the refinement of literary perspective / Martin Klepper

Reading the waste land : textuality, mediality, modernity / Christoph Reinfandt

Black boxes and white noise : Don DeLillo and the reality of literature / Edgar Landgraf

Who is afraid of Arnold Schwarzenegger? : absurd democracy in the United States / Hans-Georg Moeller

The semantics of self-denial : the new American studies through the lens of Luhmann's social systems theory / Michael Boyden

Nation of speculation : the construction of a financial public in 19th century America / Urs Staeheli

Institutionalized individualism : Parsons and Luhmann on American society / Gert Verschraegen

Why did Luhmann's social systems theory find so little resonance in the United States of America? / Rodrigo Jokisch

Drawing out the reader : tourism, literature, individuality / Ulrich Brinkmann

Steps to an ecology of systems : whole Earth and systemic holism / Bruce Clarke

The system in the garden : American studies and functional differentiation / Andrew McMurry

World-systems colliding : Thomas Pynchon and Niklas Luhmann / Joseph Tabbi

Conclusion : Luhmann, literature, and American multiculturalism / Carsten Schinko.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789042032576

904203257X

OCLC:

701012198