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Kinesthesia is a universal condition. It may be understood as the creative condition for all sense and sensibility. Kinesthesia operates as an enabling mechanism of "I can" and "I cannot". Health communication requires a reconsideration of the situated communicative body and expression found in comparative East/West wellness practices. In order to accomplish this task, the exploration of whole and healthy require a different understanding, that is, that wholeness is a process of the interaction of body's internal environment and external environment in rhythmic interplay of healthy/unhealthy, wholly/unwholly play. The articulation of the above will see that kinesthesis is the creative condition of maintaining and restoring health. It is through a phenomenology of kinesthesia that the fundamental dimension of health communication can be established as a science.

Political communication is strictly distinguished from social and individual activities that are interest-laden and thus lack the autonomy to be political. The latter belongs solely to political societies that are democratic. Indeed, there must be a strict restriction of the use of political to a public domain in which every member of society participates in public debates and decisions. Participation in debate and decision-making requires the gemini of communication: understanding and accessibility which require a public domain of public expression. The politics of technocratic journalism is the invisible threat to the right to freedom of speech. ; Political communication is strictly distinguished from social and individual activities that are interest-laden and thus lack the autonomy to be political. The latter belongs solely to political societies that are democratic. Indeed, there must be a strict restriction of the use of political to a public domain in which every member of society participates in public debates and decisions. Participation in debate and decision-making requires the gemini of communication: understanding and accessibility which require a public domain of public expression. The politics of technocratic journalism is the invisible threat to the right to freedom of speech.

Intro -- Contents -- Prelude -- Giddens -- Merleau-Ponty -- Bourdieu -- How Does Agency Work? -- Methodological Critique -- Positivism -- Negri -- Structuralism -- Semiology -- Matter of Fact -- Life-world and Global Civilization -- Logic and Fact -- Signitive world -- Signitive Space and Time -- Evaluative Nexus -- Signitive Power -- Postscript -- The Dialogical Domain -- Individual and Community -- The World of Dialogue -- The Structure of Dialogical thought in the Contemporary Tradition -- Phenomenological Principles of Dialogue -- The "Essential" Structure of Dialogue -- The Temporalization and Unity of the Dialogical Domain -- Concretization of the Dialogical Domain -- History -- Education and the Other -- Accessing Education -- Open Awareness -- Equi-Valence -- Body in Action -- Responsibility -- Social Objectivity -- Reflexivity -- The Conditions of Stabilization -- Theory of Praxis -- Civilizations as Limits of Selectivity -- The World of Praxis -- Hermeneutics -- Disruptions and Continuations of Traditions -- The Transcendental Basis of Critical Reflection -- Social Science and the Science of the Life-world -- Transcendental Reflection and Social Science -- Interlude: Kinaesthesia -- Movement and the "I Can" -- Kinesthetic Consciousness -- Systems of Kinesthetic Capabilities -- Kinethetic Experience and the Experience of Others -- General Ground of Praxis -- The Primacy of Historical Tradition -- The Situated Body -- References -- Author Contact Information -- Index -- Blank Page

The book is an interdisciplinary investigation of the themes of the most influential sociologist in Europe today, Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998). The dominant themes are, as the title suggests, society, environment and the world, which were developed in his works, 70 books, and over 400 articles. The topics addressed are law, economy, politics, art, ecology and mass media. It is the intention of the authors to introduce Luhmann to new audiences without utilizing the highly abstract language of Luhmann writings, which were influenced by Talcott Parsons, Max Weber, Fritz von Forester and Edmund Husserl.