What is Communication?

Journal Article What is Communication? Get access Niklas Luhmann Niklas Luhmann 1Professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Postfach 8640, D-4800 Bielefeld I, Germany. His recent publications in English include Essays on Self-Reference (Columbia University Press, 1990) and Political Theory in the Welfare State (De Gruyter, 1990). The present article is a slightly revised version of a paper delivered at a symposium of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Systemische Therapie, Heidelberg, 1986. Translation from the German is by John Bednarz, Jr. The article appears by special invitation of the editor, who thanks Klaus Krippendorff for bringing it to our attention Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 2, Issue 3, August 1992, Pages 251–259, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00042.x Published: 17 March 2006