{"product_id":"introduction-to-niklas-luhmann","title":"Introduction to Niklas Luhmann","description":"German sociologist Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was perhaps the most prominent European sociologist of his time, as well as the author of a prolific list of publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuhmann was influenced by his teacher, Talcott Parsons, of functional sociology fame, and by Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. Although functional sociology and phenomenology are seemingly incompatible, Luhmann was able to provide a new twist to the Parsonian legacy, stressing meaning as the driver of the social system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTemporal selectivity is based on the passive-active method. This dimension was borrowed by Husserl’s work on passive syntheses. Luhmann was able to achieve a theoretical orientation which was nonhierarchical for 21st-century society. His work is far reaching in its conceptual and comprehensive grasp of accounting for technological modernity and postmodernity within modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays address the logic in Luhmann’s work through concrete investigations of system, environment, and world. These investigations in law, organization, gender, the world of technology, structuration, and race demonstrate some of the breadth of Luhmann’s work.","brand":"Hampton Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57230360248664,"sku":"9781612891378","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781612891378.jpg?v=1780114565","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/introduction-to-niklas-luhmann","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}