Author:
Bond, Niall.
Imprint:Zurich (Switzerland): Lit , c2013.
Description428 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note:Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft as a work and a conceptual dichotomy -- Tonnies' early development -- Tonnies and Storm : elective affinities -- Tonnies and Paulsen : conciliator iconoclasts -- Rational natural law and German sociology : Hobbes, Locke and Tonnies -- Tonnies and Enlightenment : a friend or foe of reason? -- Ferdinands Tonnies' romanticism -- Tonnies and western European positivism -- Tonnies and academic socialism -- Tonnies' appraisal of Marx : debts and distance -- The grim probity of Schopenhauer and Tonnies -- Nietzchean practical philosophy, Tonniesian sociology and hermeneutics -- The displacement of normative discourse from legal theory to empirical sociology : Ferdinand Tonnies, natural law, the Historical School, Jhering and Gierke -- Tonnies' "Theorem of cultural philosophy" -- Postface.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-428).