ISBN:
9780804739504
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9780804786478 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
488 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780804786478
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Cultural Memory in the Present
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. 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 lo...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
