his book brings together international experts on the application of Niklas Luhmann"s theory of society as autopoietic communication. Luhmann"s sociological systems theory is counter-intuitive and in its detached coolness difficult for many to understand and accept. Naturally they ask: is it really worth the trouble to learn? This book demonstrates what this combination of systems theory, Batesonian information theory, von Foerster"s second-order cybernetics, Maturana and Varela"s autopoiesis and Husserl"s phenomenology can offer.