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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Philobiblion
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Theory of Society, Volume 1
Author: Niklas Luhmann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080478647X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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 A concluding chapter on the semantics of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the outdated theoretical approaches of "old Europe," that is, to ontological, holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of society, and argues that concepts such as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.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080478647X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.
The Encarta Book of Quotations
Author: Bill Swainson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312230005
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312230005
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Author: George Watson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
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Catalogue. [With]
Author: Oxford and Cambridge university club libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the New-York Society Library
Author: New York Society Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Memoirs of Women Writers, Part II, Volume 5
Author: Gina Luria Walker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040233805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences. Written by the autodidact Mary Hays, it attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and made genuine contributions to cultural capital.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040233805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences. Written by the autodidact Mary Hays, it attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and made genuine contributions to cultural capital.
Forster Collection
Author: South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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The Drama of John Marston
Author: T. F. Wharton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521651360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This is an invaluable collection of critical essays on the work of dramatist John Marston.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521651360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This is an invaluable collection of critical essays on the work of dramatist John Marston.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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