TY - BOOK AU - Luhmann,Niklas AU - Rasch,William TI - Theories of distinction: redescribing the descriptions of modernity T2 - Cultural memory in the present SN - 0804741220 (alk. paper) AV - HM585 .L84 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Sociology KW - Philosophy KW - Social sciences KW - Participant observation KW - Knowledge, Sociology of N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages: [213]-223) and index; Introduction: The Self-Positing Society / William Rasch -- Husserl, Science, Modernity -- The Modern Sciences and Phenomenology -- The Modernity of Science -- Paradox and Observation -- The Paradox of Observing Systems -- Deconstruction as Second-Order Observing -- Identity--What or How? -- The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and the Reality That Remains Unknown -- Communication -- What Is Communication? -- How Can the Mind Participate in Communication? -- Coda: "Not in Frankfurt" -- I See Something You Don't See ER -