Art As a Social System by Niklas Luhmann
This is an analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by one of Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century. It is intended to represent an intellectual step in discussions of art and an important advance in systems theory.-
Homo Sacer
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Technics and Time, 1
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The Open
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The Spirit of Utopia
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Being Singular Plural
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Aporias
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Technics and Time, 2
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"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays
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Creation and Anarchy
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The Instant of My Death /Demeure
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What Is Philosophy?
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On the Name
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On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy
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Resistances of Psychoanalysis
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The Use of Bodies
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The Work of Fire
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Of God Who Comes to Mind
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Rogues
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Technics and Time, 3
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The Highest Poverty
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The Man Without Content
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Nudities
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Writings on Art and Literature
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Psyche
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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
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Is It Righteous to Be?
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Points...
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A Child Is Being Killed
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Opus Dei
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God, Death, and Time
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Acting Out
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Files
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Pilate and Jesus
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The End of the Poem
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Faux Pas
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The Rules of Art
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Who's Afraid of Philosophy?
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The Fire and the Tale
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Posthumous People
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The Experience of Freedom
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Karman
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What Is Real?
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Eyes of the University
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The Muses
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Potentialities
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The Kingdom and the Glory
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Musica Ficta
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Traces
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Reflections on Literature and Culture
"Art as a Social System deserves to be read as a brilliant synthesis of every major philosophy of art, from Baumgarten to Kristeva, and as an ambitious attempt to understand art history in its entirety. . . It seems inevitable that North American academics in the humanities will soon confront this challenging work."—Literary Research / Recherche Litteraire
"Thus, what is most interesting about Luhmann's view of art is also what is most interesting about his general theory: its sophisticated and elaborate explorations in the evolutionary development of the media of communication, which are perhaps unparalleled in contemporary theory."—American Journal of Sociology
"Overall this is a fascinating, stimulating and thought-provoking book not always in ways that may have been intended by the author."—John Danvers
"This book is a pleasure to read. It is literate, informed, unpretentious, and patient...The book is a spectacular example of one anthropologist's selection of the technical world as an object of study after generations of sociocultural anthropologists' bias against the same."—ISIS
"Thus, what is most interesting about Luhmann's view of art is also what is most interesting about his general theory: its sophisticated and elaborate explorations in the evolutionary development of the media of communication, which are perhaps unparalleled in contemporary theory."—American Journal of Sociology
"Overall this is a fascinating, stimulating and thought-provoking book not always in ways that may have been intended by the author."—John Danvers
"This book is a pleasure to read. It is literate, informed, unpretentious, and patient...The book is a spectacular example of one anthropologist's selection of the technical world as an object of study after generations of sociocultural anthropologists' bias against the same."—ISIS
Niklas Luhmann was Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. Among his books translated into English are Social Systems (Stanford, 1995), Observations on Modernity (Stanford, 1998), and Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy (Stanford paperback, 1998).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804739078 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804739072 |
| Title | Art As a Social System |
| Author | Niklas Luhmann |
| Series | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 2000-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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