From: michele.intorcia-AT-ntt.it
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 97 17:23:56 PST
Subject: Re: Individuals and communication 



"                              "The communication is an improbable event"
                                Luhmann N.

Thank you to all and you excuse but. my PC is been broken!
Thank you to Kenneth, Tom, Peters and the others for the very interesting 
responses to my question "is thing an individual"?.
But the response of Peter Bratsis has me very stricken. Certainly, I agree, 
the difference Elster's between Luhmann's and statements is 
epistemological.

But I want to understand: which are the consequences of the antihumanism 
radical of Luhmann?
His theory conduct to a critical theory of the society or to a theory of 
the dominion of the System on the individuals? Is my worry moral or 
politics, then not sociological? Tanks.
       
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