{"product_id":"art-as-a-social-system-meridian-crossing-aesthetics-9780804739078","title":"Art as a Social System Meridian Crossing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by one of Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century. It is intended to represent an intellectual step in discussions of art and an important advance in systems theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eArt as a Social System\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to be read as a brilliant synthesis of every major philosophy of art, from Baumgarten to Kristeva, and as an ambitious attempt to understand art history in its entirety. . . . It seems inevitable that North American academics in the humanities will soon confront this challenging work.\"—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Research \/ Recherche Litteraire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thus, what is most interesting about Luhmann's view of art is also what is most interesting about his general theory: its sophisticated and elaborate explorations in the evolutionary development of the media of communication, which are perhaps unparalleled in contemporary theory.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Overall this is a fascinating, stimulating and thought-provoking book not always in ways that may have been intended by the author.\"—John Danvers\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a pleasure to read. It is literate, informed, unpretentious, and patient...The book is a spectacular example of one anthropologist's selection of the technical world as an object of study after generations of sociocultural anthropologists' bias against the same.\"—ISIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  \t  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  1  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  2  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  3  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  4  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  5  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  6  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  7","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405539942743,"sku":"9780804739078","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804739078.jpg?v=1730492772","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-as-a-social-system-meridian-crossing-aesthetics-9780804739078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}