Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General introduction
- Chronology of Tönnies's life and career
- A note on the texts and further reading
- A note on translation
- Glossary
- COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
- Book One A general classification of key ideas
- Book Two Natural will and rational will
- Book Three The sociological basis of natural law
- Appendix: Conclusions and future prospects
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General introduction
- Chronology of Tönnies's life and career
- A note on the texts and further reading
- A note on translation
- Glossary
- COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
- Book One A general classification of key ideas
- Book Two Natural will and rational will
- Book Three The sociological basis of natural law
- Appendix: Conclusions and future prospects
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Summary
A translation of Ferdinand Tönnies
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft: an Essay on Communism and Socialism as Historical Social Systems (1887)
re-issued as
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft: fundamental Concepts in Pure Sociology (1912, 1920, 1935)
‘According to Xenocrates, the reason for the invention of philosophy is to remove the disorderly element in the affairs of life’
(Galen, History of Philosophy, c.3).- Type
- Chapter
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- Tönnies: Community and Civil Society , pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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