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Walter de Gruyter Publishers present this book on the occasion of
their 250th anniversary. It is a chronological account of how five
publishers became a one company. The publisher Georg Reimer had
close connections with Berlin University and the Prussian Academy
of Sciences. G.J. Goschen'sche Verlagshandlung was one of the great
publishers of classics, issuing the first complete authorized
edition of Goethe's works and also publishing the scholarly
paperback series "Sammlung Goschen". Veit & Comp. issued
scientific-medical books, such as "Dornbluth", precursor of the
famous "Pschyrembel". I. Guttentag was one of the leading law
publishers, whose name is still remembered in the series "Sammlung
Guttentag". The publisher Karl I. Trubner's strengths were
linguistics and the classics. "Kluges Etymologisches Worterbuch" is
still one of Walter de Gruyter's flagships. In accordance with the
20th century entrepreneurial spirit Walter de Gruyter merged these
publishers in 1919.
A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research.
Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying
recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to
disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk,
now available in paperback, 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. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering
unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a
decision attributable to a decision maker.
Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern
classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations
work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how
they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization
is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this
paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society
without losing autonomy. In developing his autopoietic perspective
on organizations, Luhmann applies his general theory of social
systems by conceptualizing organizations as self reproducing
systems of decision communications. His innovative and
interdisciplinary approach to the material (spanning organization
studies, management and sociology) is integral to any study of
organizations. This new translation, edited by one of the world's
leading experts on Luhmann, enables researchers and graduate
students across the English-speaking world to access Luhmann's
ideas more readily.
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was
first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his
thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it
offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning
with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high
improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range
of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing
press, and electronic media, as well as "success media," such as
money, power, truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity
and make communication possible. The book asks what gives rise to
functionally differentiated social systems, how they evolve, and
how social movements, organizations, and patterns of interaction
emerge. The advent of the computer and its networks, which
triggered potentially far-reaching processes of restructuring,
receives particular attention. A concluding chapter on the
semantics of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the
outdated theoretical approaches of "old Europe"—that is, to
ontological, holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of
society—and argues that concepts such as "the nation," "the
subject," and "postmodernity" are vastly overrated. In their stead,
"society"—long considered a suspicious term by sociologists, one
open to all kinds of reification—is defined in purely operational
terms. It is the always uncertain answer to the question of what
comes next in all areas of communication.
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was
first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his
thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it
offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning
with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high
improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range
of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing
press, and electronic media, as well as "success media," such as
money, power, truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity
and make communication possible. The book asks what gives rise to
functionally differentiated social systems, how they evolve, and
how social movements, organizations, and patterns of interaction
emerge. The advent of the computer and its networks, which
triggered potentially far-reaching processes of restructuring,
receives particular attention. A concluding chapter on the
semantics of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the
outdated theoretical approaches of "old Europe"-that is, to
ontological, holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of
society-and argues that concepts such as "the nation," "the
subject," and "postmodernity" are vastly overrated. In their stead,
"society"-long considered a suspicious term by sociologists, one
open to all kinds of reification-is defined in purely operational
terms. It is the always uncertain answer to the question of what
comes next in all areas of communication.
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
media, including language, writing, the printing press, and
electronic media as well as "success media," such as money, power,
truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity and make
communication possible. An investigation into the ways in which
social systems produce and reproduce themselves, the book asks what
gives rise to functionally differentiated social systems, how they
evolve, and how social movements, organizations, and patterns of
interaction emerge. The advent of the computer and its networks,
which trigger potentially far-reaching processes of restructuring,
receive particular attention. A concluding chapter on the semantics
of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the outdated
theoretical approaches of "old Europe," that is, to ontological,
holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of society, and
argues that concepts such as "the nation," "the subject," and
"postmodernity" are vastly overrated. In their stead,
"society"--long considered a suspicious term by sociologists, one
open to all kinds of reification--is defined in purely operational
terms. It is the always uncertain answer to the question of what
comes next in all areas of communication.
Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern
classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations
work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how
they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization
is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this
paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society
without losing autonomy. In developing his autopoietic perspective
on organizations, Luhmann applies his general theory of social
systems by conceptualizing organizations as self reproducing
systems of decision communications. His innovative and
interdisciplinary approach to the material (spanning organization
studies, management and sociology) is integral to any study of
organizations. This new translation, edited by one of the world's
leading experts on Luhmann, enables researchers and graduate
students across the English-speaking world to access Luhmann's
ideas more readily.
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
media, including language, writing, the printing press, and
electronic media as well as "success media," such as money, power,
truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity and make
communication possible. An investigation into the ways in which
social systems produce and reproduce themselves, the book asks what
gives rise to functionally differentiated social systems, how they
evolve, and how social movements, organizations, and patterns of
interaction emerge. The advent of the computer and its networks,
which trigger potentially far-reaching processes of restructuring,
receive particular attention. A concluding chapter on the semantics
of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the outdated
theoretical approaches of "old Europe," that is, to ontological,
holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of society, and
argues that concepts such as "the nation," "the subject," and
"postmodernity" are vastly overrated. In their stead,
"society"--long considered a suspicious term by sociologists, one
open to all kinds of reification--is defined in purely operational
terms. It is the always uncertain answer to the question of what
comes next in all areas of communication.
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