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Understanding Ferdinand Tönnies' Community and Society : social theory and political philosophy between enlighted liberal individualism and transfigured community / Niall Bond.

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Understanding Ferdinand Tönnies' Community and Society : social theory and political philosophy between enlighted liberal individualism and transfigured community / Niall Bond.
Author
Bond, Niall.
Publication
Zürich ; Berlin : Lit, c2013.

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428 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Community and society
  • Ferdinand Tönnies' Community and society
  • Social theory and political philosophy between enlighted liberal individualism and transfigured community
Subject
  • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (Sociology)
  • Tönnies, Ferdinand, 1855-1936
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft as a work and a conceptual dichotomy -- Tönnies' early development -- Tönnies and Storm : elective affinities -- Tönnies and Paulsen : conciliator iconoclasts -- Rational natural law and German sociology : Hobbes, Locke and Tönnies -- Tönnies and Enlightenment : a friend or foe of reason? -- Ferdinands Tönnies' romanticism -- Tönnies and western European positivism -- Tönnies and academic socialism -- Tönnies' appraisal of Marx : debts and distance -- The grim probity of Schopenhauer and Tönnies -- Nietzchean practical philosophy, Tönniesian sociology and hermeneutics -- The displacement of normative discourse from legal theory to empirical sociology : Ferdinand Tönnies, natural law, the Historical School, Jhering and Gierke -- Tönnies' "Theorem of cultural philosophy" -- Postface.
ISBN
9783643901385 (pbk.)
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library