Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998)

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1. Niklas Luhmann

   Author of Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy (Cultural Memory in the Present), Einführung in die Systemtheorie, Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)

2. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Theory and Practice

3. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Pascalian Meditations

4. Theodor W. Adorno

   Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetic Theory, Prisms

5. Axel Honneth

   Author of The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Communicative action : essays on Jürgen Habermas's The theory of communicative action

6. Ulrich Beck

   Author of Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society), Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order, Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk

7. Max Horkheimer

   Author of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Critical Theory (Critical Theory Ppr), Critique of Instrumental Reason (Critique of Reason Ppr)

8. Fredric Jameson

   Author of The Political Unconscious, The Prison-House of Language, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

9. Humberto R. Maturana

   Author of Tree of Knowledge, Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

10. Anthony Giddens

    Author of The Consequences of Modernity, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies

11. Richard Rorty

    Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

12. Talcott Parsons

    Author of The Social System, The Structure of Social Action, Vol. 1: Marshall, Pareto, Durkeim, Societies - Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives

13. Michel Foucault

    Author of The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981--1982 (Lectures at the College de France), Security, Territory, Population

14. Georg Simmel

    Author of The Philosophy of Money, Gesamtausgabe 11. Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung.

15. Reinhart Koselleck

    Author of Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.), Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

16. Richard Sennett

    Author of The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, The Fall of Public Man, Respect in a World of Inequality

17. Alain Badiou

    Author of Logics of Worlds, Theory of the Subject

18. George Herbert Mead

    Author of Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead), George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology (Heritage of Sociology Series)

19. Rolf Wiggershaus

    Author of The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

20. Manuel Castells

    Author of The Rise of the Network Society, The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society, End of Millennium