Interview

• "Mass media anl local culture" (Napoli, 29/03/90)

Biography

Niklas Luhmann was born in Lunemburg, in Lower Saxony on 18 December 1927. He studied law at Frieberg, where he worked in public administration. At Harvard in 1960 he studied under the famous sociologist Talcott Parsons and decided to dedicate himself to the social sciences. Since 1968 he has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld (Westfalia).

Bibliography

Among his works available in English are:

• Trust and Power, Chichester (Wiley) 1979.
• Religious Dogmatics and the Evolution of Societies, New York-Toronto (Edwin Mellen Press) 1984.
• A Sociological Theory of Law, London (Routledge) 1985.
• The Differentiation of Society, New York (Columbia UP) 1982.
• Love as Passion, Cambridge (Polity Press) 1986.
• Political Theory in the Welfare State, Berlin, de Gruyter, 1990.
• Essays on Self-Reference, New York (Columbia U.P.) 1990.