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Theory of society. Volume 2 /
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Cultural memory in the present.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. 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. |
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| Notas: | "Originally published in German under the title Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 453 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780804787277 0804787271 |