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 ogy 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.
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