It must grasp the material world, make it significant and understandable for the individual, and it must set up legitimate social and political energy. This concept of society presents itself as the important thing to what Niklas Luhmann called a “sociological enlightenment” that may deliver social thought out of “the Dark Ages” of anthropocentrism, social ontology, and normative social philosophy...

It must grasp the material world, make it significant and understandable for the individual, and it must set up legitimate social and political energy. This concept of society presents itself as the important thing to what Niklas Luhmann called a “sociological enlightenment” that may deliver social thought out of “the Dark Ages” of anthropocentrism, social ontology, and normative social philosophy...