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Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann

Niklas Luhmann was a German sociologist known for his system theory and analysis of modern social complexity. His research spanned multiple disciplines including sociology, political science, law, and economics, and had a profound impact on post-modern social theory. more

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“The last clear definite function of man - muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need - this is man. To build a wall, to build a house, a dam, and in the wall and house and dam to put something of Manself, and to Manself take back something of the wall, the house the dam; to take hard muscles from the lifring, to take the clear lines and form from conceiving. For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”