Complejidad y contingencia en la obra de Niklas Luhmann

Zusammenfassung

Original German sociologist and hardly classifiable, Niklas Luhmann has prepared an ambitious and coherent theory which describe the modern society as a system. Constituted, not for individuals but for communication, it divides in functional subsystems closed across specializing codes: the political, economic, religious, artistic or juridical systems. Being inspired by very different authors, theories and disciplines, Niklas Luhmman has constructed one of the most fecund and singular works of the XXth century. The objective of this article is to bring over the reader to the mentioned work and, in particular, to his conception of the concepts of complexity and risk that constitutes fundamental notions in the Luhmann thinking