Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 03:50:56 +1100
Subject: Re: Individuals and communication 


At 05:23 PM 11/16/97 PST, michele wrote:
>
>"                              "The communication is an improbable event"
>                                Luhmann N.
>
>Thank you to all and you excuse but. my PC is been broken!
>Thank you to Kenneth, Tom, Peters and the others for the 
>very interesting responses to my question "is thing an individual"?.
>But the response of Peter Bratsis has me very stricken. 
>Certainly, I agree, the difference Elster's between Luhmann's 
>and statements is epistemological.
>
>But I want to understand: which are the consequences 
>of the antihumanism radical of Luhmann?
>His theory conduct to a critical theory of the society
>or to a theory of the dominion of the System on the 
>individuals? Is my worry moral or politics, then not 
>sociological? Tanks.

hi michele. i just wanted to say something before tom did. glad to see your
PC is no longer broken. battleships.

deX.