Luhmann Applied

    ed. Søren Brier, Dirk Baecker and Ole Thyssen

    200 pp., £17.95 / $34.90, 978-1845401481 (pbk.), March 2008

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    This book brings together international experts on the application of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of society as autopoietic communication. Luhmann’s sociological systems theory is counter-intuitive and in its detached coolness difficult for many to understand and accept. Naturally they ask: is it really worth the trouble to learn? This book demonstrates what this combination of systems theory, Batesonian information theory, von Foerster’s second-order cybernetics, Maturana and Varela’s autopoiesis and Husserl’s phenomenology can offer.

    The book is produced in cooperation with the Sociocybernetic Group and Copenhagen Business School and is a special issue of the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing

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