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Essays on self reference. Add to My Bookmarks Export citation. Type Book Author(s) Niklas Luhmann Date 1990 Publisher Columbia University Press Pub place New York ISBN-10 0231063687. This item appears on.. Your reading intentions are also stored in your profile for future reference. How do I set a reading intention. To set a reading.

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Niklas LuhmannA prominent German sociologist, Niklas Luhmann (born 1927) developed a general sociological systems theory, which he applied to a wide range of problems. Source for information on Niklas Luhmann: Encyclopedia of World Biography dictionary.

References to the works of Niklas Luhmann that were used by Mike Terpstra for his dissertation, Niklas Luhmann: A theoretical illustration of his definition of differentiation, 1997.

In this presentation of a general theory of systems, Niklas Luhmann, Germany's most prominent and controversial social thinker, sets out a contribution to sociology that reworks our understanding of meaning and communication. For Luhmann, the end of metanarratives does not mean the end of theory, but a challenge to theory.

In The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems-applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political system, art, religion, the sciences, and law-to an examination of the role of mass media in the construction of social reality. Luhmann argues that the system of mass media is a set of recursive, self-referential programs of communication, whose functions.

An application of the concept of autopoiesis to sociology can be found in Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory, which was subsequently adapted by Bob Jessop in his studies of the capitalist state system. Marjatta Maula adapted the concept of autopoiesis in a business context.

Bibliography. Alexander, Samuel. Space, Time, and Deity. Vol 1. London: Adamant Media Corporation, 2007. Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.

A blog inspired by Niklas Luhmann and other social theorists.. Publications; Paradox and Self-Reference. March 1, 2018 Carlton Clark Complexity 18 comments. Descartes employed radical doubt until he reached the point where he could doubt the fact that he was doubting. This was the paradox that stopped him in his tracks.

THE LEGACY OF NIKLAS LUHMANN 67 Profile I. form of essays since the end of the 1960s; and second, in the form of monographs since the 1980s, dealing with the individual function sys-tems of society, such as law, science and art.. Luhmann transfers the structure of the self-.

Niklas Luhmann is widely recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the social sciences today. This major new work further develops the theories of the author by offering a challenging analysis of the relationship between society and the environment.