Tönnies: Community and Civil Society (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Hardcover

Tönnies, Ferdinand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521561191 ISBN 13: 9780521561198

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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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Tonnies: Community and Civil Society A new translation and introduction make this classic of social and political theory readily accessible. Full description

Review:

' ... the translators have here done an excellent job of translation from nineteenth-century German to twenty-first century English.' German History

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521561191
• ISBN 13: 9780521561198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Harris Jose