Notes on the reading and translation of Niklas Luhmann's "The Economy of Society"

Abstract

Anahí Urquiza and Lionel Lewkow, keen researchers not only of Niklas Luhmann's general work, but also of contemporary deployments of systems theory in different fields and in diverse theoretical extensions, have already shown the value of Niklas Luhmann's The Economy of Society. While Urquiza provides a precise synthesis of the book in general and emphasizes the environmental problematic that confronts the present of world society with its future (a subject on which Anahí Urquiza is an expert), Lewkow, translator of Simmel, after clearly identifying the main axes of the book, chooses the reflection on money for his reconstruction; this allows him to situate Luhmann's work in its relation to the increasingly attractive and dense sociology of economics.