RT Book
T1 Theories of distinction: redescribing the descriptions of modernity
T2 Cultural memory in the present
A1 Luhmann, Niklas 1927-1998
A2 Rasch, William 1949-
A2 O'Neil, Joseph
A2 Schreiber, Elliott 1969-
A2 Behnke, Kerstin
A2 Whobrey, William 1956-
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/333111885
AB The essays in this volume by Germany`s leading social theorist of the late twentieth century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The first two essays deal with the modern European philosophical and scientific tradition, notably the ogy of Edmund Husserl. The next four essays concern the crucial notion of observation as defined by Luhmann. They examine the history of paradox as a logical problem and as a historically conditioned feature of rhetoric; deconstruct the thinking of Jacques Derrida, especially his language-centered allegiances; discuss the usefulness of Spencer Brown`s Laws of Form; and assess the consequences of observation and paradox for epistemology. The following essays present Luhmann`s theory of communication and his articulation of the difference between thought and communication, a difference that makes clear one of Luhmann`s most radical and controversial theses, that the individual not only does not form the basic element of society but is excluded from it altogether, situated instead in the environment of the social system. The book concludes with a polemic against the critical thought of the Frankfurt School of postwar German social thought.
CN HM585
SN 0804741220
SN 0804741239
SN 9780804741231
K1 Sociology : Philosophy
K1 Social Sciences : Philosophy
K1 Participant Observation : Philosophy
K1 Knowledge, Sociology of
K1 Soziologie