Böcker av Niklas Luhmann

In this presentation of a general theory of systems, Germany's most prominent and controversial social thinker sets out a contribution to sociology that reworks our understanding of meaning and communication. It closely interrelates such different traditions as German idealism, phenomenology, systems theory, sociological functionalism, and the epistemology of contemporary biology.

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In dieser Sonderedition sind die Bände 1 bis 6 der "Soziologischen Aufklärung" zusammengefasst. Damit ist ein hervorragender Überblick der Luhmannschen Systemtheorie geboten.

Mit diesem sechsbandigen Werk erscheint erstmals eine vollstandige Edition der Aufsatze und Vortrage Niklas Luhmanns zum Thema Organisation. Dieser abschliessende Band enthalt Annotationen, Bibliografie, Register und weitere Hilfsmittel zur Erschliessung der Texte. "Ohne Organisation geht es nicht.

Mit diesem sechsbändigen Werk erscheint erstmals eine vollständige Edition der Aufsätze und Vorträge Niklas Luhmanns zum Thema Organisation. Die Bände präsentieren schwer auffindbare Texte und bisher unveröffentlichte Materialien.Der vierte Band dokumentiert Stellungnahmen Luhmanns zu Fragen der Organisationspraxis: Automation und Reform der Verwaltung, Bürokratieabbau sowie Unternehmensberatung."Wer von Überlegungen zu so allgemeinen Themen Hilfe für seine berufliche Praxis erwartet, verkennt die Eigenart soziologischer Theoriebildung; er überschätzt sie oder unterschätzt sie - wie man es nimmt. Es gibt gute Analysen der Funktion des Witzes; aber sie haben noch niemandem geholfen, einen Witz zu erfinden."Niklas Luhmann, 1972

Theoretical sociology has shown little interest in risk research. Here, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present.

Mit diesem sechsbändigen Werk erscheint erstmals eine vollständige Edition der Aufsätze und Vorträge Niklas Luhmanns zum Thema Organisation. Die Bände präsentieren schwer auffindbare Texte und bisher unveröffentlichte Materialien. Dieser erste Band enthält die frühen Schriften aus den Jahren 1958-1969.¿Je größer das Potential, desto sicherer stehen jederzeit die gewünschten Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung, desto unabhängiger wird das funktionale System von Zufällen und von unkontrolliertem Wechsel in den natürlichen Gegebenheiten. Das Fräulein A ist unvergleichlich. In ihrer Funktion als Stenotypistin ist sie jedoch durch andere Mädchen, teilweise sogar durch ein Diktiergerät zu ersetzen. Dadurch wird sichergestellt, daß das Bedürfnis nach ihrer Leistung, auch wenn sie erkrankt, jederzeit gleichmäßig, rasch und zufallsfrei befriedigt werden kann.¿Niklas Luhmann, 1958

Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's classic text explores how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they order and structure society. A must-read for scholars and graduate students in organizational theory and sociology.

A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research

This book offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution.

This is the second volume of the author's magnum opus, which offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution.

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century. It combines three decades of research in the social sciences, phenomenology, evolutionary biology, cybernetics, and information theory with an intimate knowledge of art history, literature, aesthetics, and contemporary literary theory.

This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is modern about modernity?" and shows the origins and context of his theory.In the introductory essay, "Modernity in Contemporary Society," Luhmann develops the thesis that the modern epistemological situation can be seen as the consequence of a radical change in social macrostructures that he calls "social differentiation," thereby designating the juxtaposition of and interaction between a growing number of social subsystems without any hierarchical structure. "European Rationality" defines rationality as the capacity to see the difference between systems and their environment as a unity. Luhmann argues that, in a world characterized by contingency, rationality tends to become coextensive with imagination, a view that challenges their classical binary opposition and opens up the possibility of seeing modern rationality as a paradox.In the third essay, "Contingency as Modern Society's Defining Attribute," Luhmann develops a further and probably even more important paradox: that the generalization of contingency or cognitive uncertainty is precisely what provides stability within modern societies. In the process, he argues that medieval and early modern theology can be seen as a "preadaptive advance" through which Western thinking prepared itself for the modern epistemological situation. In "Describing the Future," Luhmann claims that neither the traditional hope of learning from history nor the complementary hope of cognitively anticipating the future can be maintained, and that the classical concept of the future should be replaced by the notion of risk, defined as juxtaposing the expectation of realizing certain projects and the awareness that such projects might fail. The book concludes with "The Ecology of Ignorance," in which Luhmann outlines prospective research areas "for sponsors who have yet to be identified."

In this volume, Luhmann analyzes the evolution of love in Western Europe from the 17th century to the present. In the book he aims to restore the lost link between academically reputable social theorizing and the subjective experience of life.

This posthumous and crucial contribution by one of the latter twentieth-century's most important sociologists, overturns a half-century of assumptions about the sociology of religion.

The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society.