David James

This is an invaluable guide to writing letters so that they say exactly what you want to say and achieve the desired response. Every aspect is covered, from the paper used and layout of a letter to personal and business letter writing.

The volume develops the concepts of the self and its reflexive nature as they are linked to modern thought from Hegel to Luhmann. The moderns are reflexive in a double sense: they create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world - society - in their own image. That the social world is reflexive means that it is made up of non-subjective (or supra-subjective) communication. The volume's contributors analyze this double reflexivity, of the...