His objective was not to produce an esoteric language shared only by social theorists, but to develop a language which was able to manage the new ideas created by the dynamism of his new enlightenment and its unique way of observing the world. The hope was that these terms, once created, would eventually provide a common vocabulary to enable communication to take place between different understandings of the social world.

XREF: Connects to the sociology of knowledge and how shared language creates common ground in emerging disciplines, echoing Kuhn's concept of paradigm formation.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 31