Observations on Modernity读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 160页 | 1998 | Stanford University Press |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
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| USD 27.95 | 1998-07-01 … | 2023-01-25 … | 22 |
This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is modern about modernity?" and shows the origins and context of his theory. In the introductory essay, "Modernity in Contemporary Society," Luhmann develops the thesis that the modern epistemological situation can be seen as the consequence of a radical change in social macrostructures that he calls "social differentiation," thereby designating the juxtaposition of and interaction between a growing number of social subsystems without any hierarchical structure. "European Rationality" defines rationality as the capacity to see the difference between systems and their environment as a unity. Luhmann argues that, in a world characterized by contingency, rationality tends to become coextensive with imagination, a view that challenges their classical binary opposition and opens up the possibility of seeing modern rationality as a paradox. In the third essay, "Contingency as Modern Society's Defining Attribute," Luhmann develops a further and probably even more important paradox: that the generalization of contingency or cognitive uncertainty is precisely what provides stability within modern societies. In the process, he argues that medieval and early modern theology can be seen as a "preadaptive advance" through which Western thinking prepared itself for the modern epistemological situation. In "Describing the Future," Luhmann claims that neither the traditional hope of learning from history nor the complementary hope of cognitively anticipating the future can be maintained, and that the classical concept of the future should be replaced by the notion of risk, defined as juxtaposing the expectation of realizing certain projects and the awareness that such projects might fail. The book concludes with "The Ecology of Ignorance," in which Luhmann outlines prospective research areas "for sponsors who have yet to be identified."
作者简介魯曼（Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998），德國知名的社會學家。1927年生於下薩克森邦的呂內堡（Lueneburg）。15歲時受到徵召，在二次大戰期間服役於德國空軍，擔任地勤助手，之後曾受被盟軍所俘住過戰俘營至1945年9月。1946年在佛萊堡（Freiburg）大學就讀法律系，畢業後通過兩次國家考試後服務於行政機關。1961年申請行政人員進修組織課程的獎學金，至美國哈佛大學跟隨派深思（T. Parsons，美國社會學結構功能論大師）做客座研究一年。返德後任教於德國斯拜爾（Speyer）行政高等學校，1967年於明斯特（Muenster）大學先後提出博士論文與教授資格論文。1968年起任教於新成立的畢勒菲德（Bielefeld）新制大學社會系，1993年退休。
1998年11月6日逝世。在社會學上，盧曼一般被視為新結構功能主義的代表...
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