Niklas Luhmann Quotes on Truth
Niklas Luhmann was a German sociologist and one of the leading systems theorists of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Niklas Luhmann on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Niklas Luhmann:
“Society consists of communications, not of human beings.”
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Attributed to Niklas Luhmann:
“Self-reference is the operating principle of social systems.”
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“Whatever we know about society, or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through the mass media. This is true not only of our knowledge of society but also of our knowledge of nature.”
The reality of the Mass Media(2000) | p. 1. -
“The effect if not the function of the mass media seems to lie, therefore, in the reproduction of non- transparency through transparency, in the reproduction of non-transparency of effects through transparency of knowledge .”
The reality of the Mass Media(2000) | p. 103.