Título: Art as a Social System
Autor: Niklas Luhmann
Sinopse: 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 an important advance in systems theory. Returning to the eighteenth-century notion of aesthetics as pertaining to the "knowledge of the senses," Luhmann begins with the idea that all art, including literature, is rooted in perception. He insists on the radical incommensurability between psychic systems (perception) and social systems (communication). Art is a special kind of communication that uses perceptions instead of language. It operates at the boundary between the social system and consciousness in ways that profoundly irritate communication while remaining strictly internal to the social. In seven densely argued chapters, Luhmann develops this basic premise in great historical and empirical detail. Framed by the general problem of art's status as a social system, each chapter elaborates, in both its synchronic and diachronic dimensions, a particular aspect of this problem. The consideration of art within the context of a theory of second-order observation leads to a reconceptualization of aesthetic form. The remaining chapters explore the question of the system's code, its function, and its evolution, concluding with an analysis of "self-description." Art as a Social System draws on a vast body of scholarship, combining the results of three decades of research in the social sciences, phenomenology, evolutionary biology, cybernetics, and information theory with an intimate knowledge of art history, literature, aesthetics, and contemporary literary theory. The book also engages virtually every major theorist of art and aesthetics from Baumgarten to Derrida. Peso: 471g. Dimensões: 23.5 x 16.5 x 2.
Contexto da obra
Dentro do catálogo, este livro pode ser situado a partir do tema, da autoria e da proposta editorial. “Art as a Social System”, de Niklas Luhmann, publicado pela editora Stanford University Press, em 2000 e com 422 páginas, integra a categoria Teoria e Crítica da Arte. Esse enquadramento pode tornar mais clara a proposta do livro e o tipo de interesse que ele costuma despertar.
Editora: Stanford University Press
Páginas: 422
Ano: 2000
Edição: 1ª EDIÇÃO
Linguagem: Inglês
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9780804739078
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Stanford University Press oferecem uma experiência de leitura que combina rigor acadêmico com narrativas detalhadas e análises profundas. O catálogo privilegia obras que exploram temas históricos, políticos e culturais, frequentemente com foco em processos complexos como a evolução social, as dinâmicas de poder e as transformações tecnológicas. As sinopses sugerem uma predominância de textos que mesclam narrativa histórica e ensaios críticos, com abordagens que vão do detalhamento de eventos específicos, como guerras e movimentos sociais, até reflexões teóricas sobre filosofia, estética e ciência. O tom tende a ser denso e informativo, com ritmo que equilibra exposição analítica e storytelling, adequado a leitores interessados em compreender contextos multifacetados e debates contemporâneos.
