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Hannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko: Introduction: From National Cultures to the Semantics of Modern Society Literary Observations Martin Klepper: The Emergence of Literature as Art and the Refinement of Literary Perspective Christoph Reinfandt: Reading the Waste Land: Textuality, Mediality, Modernity Edgar Landgraf: Black Boxes and White Noise. Don DeLillo and the Reality of Literature Systemic (Dis-)Closures Hans-Georg Moeller: Who is Afraid of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Absurd Democracy in the United States Michael Boyden: The Semantics of Self-Denial: The New American Studies through the Lens of Luhmann's Social Systems Theory Urs Staeheli: Nation of Speculation: The Construction of a Financial Public in 19th Century America Semantics of Individualism Gert Verschraegen: Institutionalised Individualism. Parsons and Luhmann on American Society Rodrigo Jokisch: Why Did Luhmann's Social Systems Theory Find So Little Resonance in the United States of America? Ulrich Brinkmann: Drawing out the Reader: Tourism, Literature, Individuality American Holographics Bruce Clarke: Steps to an Ecology of Systems: Whole Earth and Systemic Holism Andrew McMurry: The System in the Garden: American Studies and Functional Differentiation Joseph Tabbi: World-Systems Colliding: Thomas Pynchon and Niklas Luhmann Carsten Schinko: Conclusion: Luhmann, Literature, and American Multiculturalism |
