The System Theory of Niklas Luhmann and the.
Niklas Luhmann and the Body: Irritating Social Systems Francis Halsall Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Thomas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland For Niklas Luhmann the body seems to almost disappear in modernity. Modern society, he argues, is a system comprised of a number of operatively.
Interpenetration and structural coupling Luhmann's systems theory works with two concepts that address the problem, namely interpenetration and structural coupling.1 The concept of interpenetration weigh that a system makes its complexity available to another system, without.
Meaning. Autopoiesis was originally presented as a system description that was said to define and explain the nature of living systems.A canonical example of an autopoietic system is the biological cell.The eukaryotic cell, for example, is made of various biochemical components such as nucleic acids and proteins, and is organized into bounded structures such as the cell nucleus, various.
With some regret this debate has lost its vigour and an attempt is made in this paper to revive some of the arguments by discussing the self-referential systems theory of Niklas Luhmann. With a basic outline of Luhmann’s ideas in place, and a more general theory of social autopoiesis explained, I will use this framework to reflect upon some of the intellectual activity in contemporary.
Luhmann Reconsidered: Steps Towards an Empirical Research Programme in the Sociology of Communication? Loet Leydesdorff forthcoming in: Colin Grant (ed.), Beyond Universal Pragmatics: Essays in the Philosophy of Communication. Oxford: Peter Lang. It was not without irony that the philosopher Karl Popper (1963, at p. 35).
Essays on Self-reference. Niklas Luhmann. Columbia University Press, 1990 - Psychology - 245 pages. 0 Reviews. Preview this book.
Luhmann (sociology, U. of Bielefield, Germany) argues that there is no individuality as seen from the outside--only self-referential individuality. This means that cells and societies, maybe even physical atoms, are all individuals.