ISBN:
0511039670
,
051181626X
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9780511039676
,
0521561191
,
9780521561198
,
0521567823
,
9780521567824
,
0511152981
,
9780511152986
,
9780511816260
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xliv, 266 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Uniform Title:
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft 〈English〉
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tönnies, Ferdinand, 1855-1936 Community and civil society
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Social structure
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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (Sociology)
;
Electronic books
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (Sociology)
;
Social structure
;
Maatschappelijk middenveld
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Translated from the German. - Description based on print version record
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