Community and Society - Brossura

Tonnies, Ferdinand

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0887387500 ISBN 13: 9780887387500

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1988

Riassunto

This extraordinary prescient work by Ferdinand Toennies was written in 1887 for a small coterie of scholars, and over the next fifty years continued to grow in importance and adherents. Its translator into English, Charles P. Loomis, well described it as a volume which pointed back into the Middle Ages and ahead into the future in its attempt to answer the questions: "What are we? Where are we? Whence did we come? Where are we going?" If the questions seem portentous in the extreme, the answers Toennies provides are modest and compelling. Every major field from sociology, to psychology, to anthropology, has found this to be a praiseworthy book. The admirable translation by Professor Loomis did much to transfer praise for the Toennies text from the German to the English-speaking world. Now, outfitted with a brilliant new opening essay by John Samples, the author of a recent full-scale biographical work on Toennies, 'Community and Society' is back in print; a welcome reminder of the glorious past of German social science.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0887387500
• ISBN 13: 9780887387500
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 324