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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 phenomenology 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. The essays in this volume formulate what is considered to be the
preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The volume starts with
an examination of the modern European philosophical and scientific tradition
notably the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl.
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