Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition, Introduction, Chapter 1 The Concept of Risk, Chapter 2 The Future as Risk, Chapter 3 Time Binding: Material and Social Aspects, Chapter 4 The Risk of Observing and the Coding of Function Systems, Chapter 5 The Special Case of High Technology, Chapter 6 Decision Makers and Those Affected, Chapter 7 Protest Movements, Chapter 8 Demands on Politics, Chapter 9 Risk in the Economic System, Chapter 10 Risky Behaviour in Organizations, Chapter 11 And Science?, Chapter 12 Second-Order Observation, Index
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Bielefeld. He authored several books, including Archimedes und wir: Interviews, Politische Planung, Love as Passion, Political Theory in the Welfare State, and Essays on Self-Reference. Rhodes Barrett is a coauthor of Ringing the Changes in Europe: Regulatory Competition and the Transformation of the State - Britain, France, Germany and the translator of The Structure of Government and Administration in Germany.
-Luhmann develops a general theory of risk in modern societies,
beginning with a geometry of precise definitions that
differentiates risk from danger and that views risk from the
perspective of a self-conscious actor who attributes calculable
outcomes to a projected future... Luhmann's essay will encourage
continued theoretical reflection and provide the impetus for a more
theoretically informed research agenda pertaining to risk and
modernity. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty.- --J. H.
Rubin, Choice
"Luhmann develops a general theory of risk in modern societies,
beginning with a geometry of precise definitions that
differentiates risk from danger and that views risk from the
perspective of a self-conscious actor who attributes calculable
outcomes to a projected future... Luhmann's essay will encourage
continued theoretical reflection and provide the impetus for a more
theoretically informed research agenda pertaining to risk and
modernity. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --J. H.
Rubin, Choice
"Luhmann develops a general theory of risk in modern societies,
beginning with a geometry of precise definitions that
differentiates risk from danger and that views risk from the
perspective of a self-conscious actor who attributes calculable
outcomes to a projected future... Luhmann's essay will encourage
continued theoretical reflection and provide the impetus for a more
theoretically informed research agenda pertaining to risk and
modernity. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --J. H.
Rubin, Choice
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