Niklas Luhmann

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5 total works indexed

1. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

   · 2016 · cited 13,866x

2. Specific killing of BRCA2-deficient tumours with inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase

   · 2005 · cited 4,428x

3. Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

   · 2016 · cited 2,990x

4. Artemisinin Resistance in <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> Malaria

   · 2009 · cited 2,877x

5. The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

   · 2017 · cited 2,663x

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Quotes

• “Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.”
• “Does knowledge rest on construction in the sense that it only functions because the knowing system is operatively closed, therefore: because it can maintain no operative contact with the outside world; and because it therefore remains dependent, for everything that it constructs, on its own distinction between self-reference and allo-reference?”
• “No matter how abstractly formulated are a general theory of systems, a general theory of evolution and a general theory of communication, all three theoretical components are necessary for the specifically sociological theory of society. They are mutually interdependent.”
• “Die folgenden Untersuchungen wagen diesen Übergang zu einem radikal antihumanistischen, einem radikal antiregionalistischen und einem radikal konstruktivistischen Gesellschaftsbegriff.”
• “We are still spellbound by a tradition that arranged psychological faculties hierarchically, relegating ‘sensuousness’ — that is, perception — to a lower position in comparison to higher, reflective functions of reason and understanding. The most advanced versions of ‘conceptual art’ still follow this tradition. By refusing to base themselves in sensuously perceptible distinctions between works of art and other objects, these works seek to avoid reducing art to the realm of sense perception.”
• “The art system operates on its own terms, but an observer of art can choose many different distinctions to indicate what he observes.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1927-12-08 ) December 8, 1927, Lüneburg , Germany

Died

November 11, 1998 (1998-11-11) (aged 70), Oerlinghausen , Germany

Alma mater

University of Freiburg , University of Münster ( PhD , Hab. )

Known for

Theory of autopoietic social systems , Functional differentiation , Operational constructivist epistemology , Double contingency

Fields

Social theory , Systems theory , Communication theory , Sociocybernetics

Institutions

University of Bielefeld

Academic advisors

Talcott Parsons

Notable students

Dirk Baecker [ de ; zh ] Peter Fuchs [ de ] Rudolf Stichweh [ de ] Elena Esposito Maren Lehmann [ de ]

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