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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ferdinand Tönnies; José Harris |
| ISBN: | 0521561191 9780521561198 0521567823 9780521567824 |
| OCLC Number: | 45023116 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
| Description: | xliv, 266 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Bk. 1. A general classification of key ideas -- Sect. 1. The theory of Gemeinschaft -- Sect. 2. The theory of Gesellschaft -- Bk. 2. Natural will and rational will -- Sect. 1. The forms of human will -- Sect. 2. Explanation of the dichotomy -- Sect. 3. Practical implications -- Bk. 3. The sociological basis of natural law -- Sect. 1. Definitions and propositions -- Sect. 2. The natural element in law -- Sect. 3. Inter-related forms of will -- commonwealth and state -- App. Conclusions and future prospects. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge texts in the history of political thought. |
| Other Titles: | Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft. |
| Responsibility: | Ferdinand Tönnies ; edited by Jose Harris ; translated by Jose Harris and Margaret Hollis. |
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Abstract:
"Ferdinand Tonnies's Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (first published in 1887) is a classic of social and political theory in the later-modern period. It focuses on the universally endemic clash between small-scale, kinship and neighbourhood-based 'communities' and large-scale competitive market 'societies'. This theme is explored in all aspects of life - in political, economic, legal and family structures; in art, religion and culture; in constructions of 'selfhood' and 'personhood'; and in modes of cognition, language and human understanding. Tonnies is best known as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology, but the present work lays greater emphasis on his relationship to European political thought and to developments in philosophy since the seventeeth-century scientific revolution, particularly the legacies of Hobbes and Kant. It can be read at many different levels: as a response to developments in Bismarckian Germany; as a more general critique of the culture of modernity; as a theoretical exercise in social, political and moral science; and as an unusual commentary on the inner character of 'democratic socialism'. This new translation and introduction make Tonnies's classic but difficult work accessible to English-speaking readers interested in social and political theory, intellectual and social history, language and cultural studies, and the history of economic thought."--Jacket.
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