{"product_id":"social-systems-writing-science-9780804726252","title":"Social Systems Writing Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this presentation of a general theory of systems, Niklas Luhmann, Germany's most prominent and controversial social thinker, sets out a contribution to sociology that reworks our understanding of meaning and communication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSocial Systems\u003c\/i\u003e presents Luhmann's startling vision of society as a self-producing or autopoietic system of communications. . . . Theories of self-reference are the way forward now in a host of disciplines—the hard sciences, law, literature, psychology, and philosophy. Luhmann's reproduction within sociology of the new systems theory of self-reference vastly enriches our understanding of the possibilities of systems theory for other disciplines.\"—Arthur J. Jacobsen, Yeshiva University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  Instead of a preface to the English edition: on the concepts 'subject' and 'action'  Preface to the German edition  Introduction: paradigm change in systems theory  1. System and function  2. Meaning  3. Double contingency  4. Communication and action  5. System and environment  6. Interpenetration  7. The individuality of psychic systems  8. Structure and time  9. Contradiction and conflict  10. Society and interaction  11. Self-reference and rationality  12. Consequences for epistemology  Notes  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405506879831,"sku":"9780804726252","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804726252.jpg?v=1730492156","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-systems-writing-science-9780804726252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}