Theory of Society, Volume 1

by Niklas Luhmann

Book Overview

This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739501
• ISBN13: 9780804739504
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"