Theory of Society Volume 1

Zusatztext "Niklas Luhmann's membership in the canon of genuinely original and comprehensive social theorists is radiantly evident. Together with that of Simmel! Durkheim! Weber! Mead! and Parsons! his work stands as one of the monumental achievements of twentieth-century sociology. With the English publication of Theory of Society ! Luhmann's magnum opus is finally available to a global readership. Students who master its supple conceptuality will find it indispensable in understanding the complexity and dynamism of the contemporary world." Informationen zum Autor Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, was one of the most eminent social theorists of the last decades of the twentieth century. Stanford University Press has published a number of his books in English: Social Systems (1995), Observations on Modernity (1998), Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy (1998), Art as a Social System (2000), The Reality of the Mass Media (2000), Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity (2002), and A Systems Theory of Religion (2012). Klappentext This book offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution. Zusammenfassung This book offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution.

Product details

• Authors: Niklas Luhmann, Niklas/ Barrett Luhmann, Luhmann Niklas
• Assisted by: Rhodes Barrett (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2003
• EAN: 9780804739504
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3950-4
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories