Niklas Luhmann's Modernity The Paradoxes of Differentiation |
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| Author:
| Rasch, William W. |
| Series title: | Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-3991-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2000 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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This book is an introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century, Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modernity is neither an Enlightenment project nor a ludic rejection of that project, but rather the precondition of all our deliberations, the structure within which our semantics makes sense.
This book is an introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century, Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modernity is neither an Enlightenment project nor a ludic rejection of that project, but rather the precondition of all our deliberations, the structure within which our semantics makes sense.