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TELL, Elvio A.. Niklas Luhmann: The complex Uncertainty either a Secularized World. Cienc. docencia tecnol. [online]. 2007, n.34, pp.67-95. ISSN 1851-1716.

Niklas Luhmann's work invites us to think over society in a new way, leaving behind old habits and traditional thoughts built by the Western intellectual heritage since the Illustration. Lukhmann's reluctance to sustain the basic postulates of the ancient European thought and his concern about proposing an illustration of the Illustration are no more that forewords to approaching the requirements of a new theory more suitable to modern times. Thus, it could be said that he requires to go beyond Modernity tempting to create new intellectual categories. As an example, his work implies a constant concern to conceive a new concept of subject independent from his/her context meant in terms of social systems, and while the analysis of social communication traditionally implies subjects, for the studied author that represents a chimera. Even when communication assumes the participation of either several or many people, that is the very reason why it cannot be attributed to any particular one.

Palabras clave : Late Modernity; Systems; Difference; Contingency; Uncertainty.

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