Art as a Social System (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art―in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set of distinctions for determining what counts as art that could be valid for those creating as well as those receiving art works―but it also represents a...

By Niklas Luhmann
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Hardcover: 435 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (September 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804739064
ISBN-13: 978-0804739061
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 5659387
Format: PDF Text TXT book

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The scope and breadth of Luhmann’s undertaking and analysis is truly astounding, and based on this “astonishment” alone, one might be tempted to call his writings in totality a work of art. “[T]o borrow a phrase from antiquity, the work of art is cre

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