Theory of Society, Volume 2This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing