Tönnies: Community and Civil Society
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Tönnies: Community and Civil Society

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Ferdinand Tönnies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (first published in 1887) is a classic of social and political theory, which explores the clash between small-scale neighbourhood-based 'communities' and large-scale competitive market 'societies'. Tönnies considers all aspects of life - political, economic, legal and family; art, religion and culture; the construction of 'selfhood' and 'personhood'; and modes of cognition, language and understanding. Often recognised as one of the founding texts of sociology, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft is also a highly significant contribution to European political thought and philosophy, with particular relevance to the legacies of Hobbes and Kant. It is at once a response to modernity, a theoretical exercise in social, political and moral science, and an unusual commentary on the inner character of 'democratic socialism'. This new English rendition will introduce Tönnies' work to a fresh generation of English-speaking readers with interests in social and political theory and the history of European ideas.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780511038242
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series-title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. General introduction
  9. Chronology of Tönnies’s life and career
  10. A note on the texts and further reading
  11. A note on translation
  12. Glossary
  13. Community and Civil Society
  14. Book One A general classification of key ideas
  15. Book Two Natural will and rational will
  16. Book Three The sociological basis of natural law
  17. Appendix Conclusions and future prospects
  18. Index