A major challenge confronting contemporary theory is to overcome
its fixation on written narratives and the culture of print. 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. Luhmann concedes that there is no longer a binding
representation of society within society, but refuses to describe
this situation as a loss of legitimation or a crisis of
representation. Instead, he proposes that we search for new ways of
coping with the enforced selectivity that marks any
self-description under the conditions of functionally
differentiated modern society. For Luhmann, the end of
metanarratives does not mean the end of theory, but a challenge to
theory, an invitation to open itself to theoretical developments in
a number of disciplines that, for quite some time, have been
successfully working with cybernetic models that no longer require
the fiction of the external observer. Social Systems provides the
foundation for a theory of modern society that would be congruent
with this new understanding of the world. One of the most important
contributions to social theory of recent decades, it has
implications for many disciplines beyond sociology.
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