Limits of interpretation, closure of communication

Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann observing texts

Elena Esposito

pp. 171-184

in: Anders la Cour, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (eds), Luhmann observed, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

The encounter between Umberto Eco and Niklas Luhmann has a biographical side (mine and of the authors considered) and a theoretical side. The first one (although complex for the people involved) is easier to describe, therefore I will start from it: from the situation around the eighties in which exchanges between disciplines and between theoretical assumptions were more open and more frequent than in later decades (probably also because there were much stronger and better acknowledged theories).

Cited authors

Eco Umberto

Luhmann Niklas