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SUMMARY:Niklas Luhmann Reading Group: Session 4.2 - Professor Steffen Roth
  (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Professor Steffen Roth
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to a reading group focused on the
  work of Niklas Luhmann\, taking place on Monday\, 20 May at 13:00. The se
 ssion will explore Luhmann’s social systems theory which reconceptualise
 s society not as a collection of individuals\, but as a self-referential s
 ystem of communication.\n“Society is often imagined as a collective of a
 cting and interacting individuals. Social order\, in this view\, emerges f
 rom the coordinated actions of human beings. Niklas Luhmann’s social sys
 tems theory inverts this intuition. In his framework\, society is the enco
 mpassing system of communication—and nothing but communication. Persons\
 , accordingly\, are not the source but the products of communication\, whi
 le action is the attribution of communication to these very products of co
 mmunication.”\nWe’re delighted to announce introductory talks by Profe
 ssor Steffen Roth (Excelia Business School La Rochelle & Wolfson College\,
  University of Cambridge)\, after which we’ll hold intensive discussions
  of the key ideas.\nRecommended background reading:\nLuhmann\, N. (1995). 
 Social Systems. Stanford University Press.Chapter: Communication and Actio
 n (pp. 137–175)
LOCATION:Syndicate Room 1\, Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, UK\, CB3 9BB
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