Community and civil society /
"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 comp...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xliv, 266 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0511039670 9780511039676 0521561191 9780521561198 0521567823 9780521567824 0511152981 9780511152986 9780511816260 051181626X 1107113164 9781107113169 1280429089 9781280429088 9786610429080 6610429081 0511303319 9780511303319 0511053487 9780511053481 |