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Auteur(s) : Luhmann, Niklas (1927-1998)
Titre(s) : Theory of society [Texte imprimé] / Niklas Luhmann ; translated by Rhodes Barrett
Traduction de : Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft
Publication : Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012-2013
Description matérielle : 2 vol. (XIV-461, VIII-453 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : Cultural memory in the present
Lien à la collection : Cultural memory in the present
Comprend : Society as social system. The sociological theory of society ; Preliminary remarks
on methodology ; Meaning ; The distinction between system and environment ; Society
as a comprehensive social system ; Operational closure and structural couplings ;
Cognition ; Ecological problems ; Complexity ; World Society ; Demands on rationality.
; Communication media. Medium and form ; Dissemination media and success media ;
Language ; Morality and the secrets of religion ; Writing ; Printing ; Electronic
media ; Dissemination media: summary ; Symbolically generalized communication media,
1: function ; Symbolically generalized communication media, 2: differentiation ; Symbolically
generalized communication media, 3:structures ; Symbolically generalized communication
media, 4:self-validation ; Moral communication ; Effects on the evolution of the societal
system. ; Evolution. Creation, planning, evolution ; Systems-theoretical basis ;
The Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution ; The variation of elements ; Selection through
media ; The restabilization of systems ; Differentiation of variation, selection,
and restabliization ; Evolutionary advances ; Technology ; The evolution of ideas
; The evolution of subsystems ; Evolution and history ; Memory.
Note(s) : Texte en anglais traduit de l'allemand. - Notes bibliogr.
"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 love,
all of which structure this fluidity and make communication possible. An investigation
into the ways in which social systems produce and reproduce themselves, the book asks
what gives rise to functionally differentiated social systems, how they evolve, and
how social movements, organizations, and patterns of interaction emerge. The advent
of the computer and its networks, which trigger potentially far-reaching processes
of restructuring, receive particular attention. A concluding chapter on the semantics
of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the outdated theoretical approaches
of "old Europe," that is, to ontological, holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations
of society, and argues that concepts such as "the nation," "the subject," and "postmodernity"
are vastly overrated. In their stead, "society"--Long considered a suspicious term
by sociologists, one open to all kinds of reification--is defined in purely operational
terms. It is the always uncertain answer to the question of what comes next in all
areas of communication."--Publisher's website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Barrett, Rhodes. Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Philosophie sociale
Systèmes sociaux
Communication -- Sociologie
Indice(s) Dewey :
301.01 (23e éd.) = Sociologie et anthropologie - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780804739498 (cloth) (alk. paper) (volume 1). - ISBN 0804739498 (cloth) (alk.
paper) (volume 1). - ISBN 9780804739504 (pbk.) (alk. paper) (volume 1). - ISBN 0804739501
(pbk.) (alk. paper) (volume 1). - ISBN 9780804771597 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN
0804771596 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780804771603 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
080477160X (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780804787277 (erroné) (electronic). - ISBN
9780804771597. - ISBN 9780804771603 (volume 2)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435229066
Notice n° :
FRBNF43522906
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