Community & Society: (Gemeinschaft Und Gesellschaft)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner, underlining throughout (pencil)
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the foundation of modern sociological thought stands Ferdinand Tönnies' monumental Community & Society (Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft), a landmark 1887 treatise that forever changed how scholars understand the fabric of human social life. Tönnies draws a razor-sharp distinction between two fundamental types of social groupings: Gemeinschaft — the intimate, organically bound community rooted in kinship, tradition, and shared will — and Gesellschaft — the impersonal, contract-driven associations that define modern industrial society. Through meticulous philosophical reasoning, the work chronicles the great transformation of Western civilization from tightly knit village communities to the atomized, rationalistic world of capitalism and the modern state. Translated and edited by Charles P. Loomis for Harper Torchbooks, this English edition presents Tönnies' dense yet profoundly rewarding argument to a broader audience without sacrificing the conceptual rigour of the original German. The work stands as a cornerstone of classical sociology, drawing on natural law, philosophy, and empirical observation to argue that modernity's gains in efficiency and freedom come at a profound social and human cost. Alongside Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, Tönnies is credited with forging the very discipline of sociology — and this text remains an indispensable lens through which to interrogate the tensions between belonging and alienation that define life in the modern world. Will the bonds of Gemeinschaft ever be recovered, or are we irrevocably bound to the cold contracts of Gesellschaft?
Author: Ferdinand Tönnies
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner, underlining throughout (pencil)
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the foundation of modern sociological thought stands Ferdinand Tönnies' monumental Community & Society (Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft), a landmark 1887 treatise that forever changed how scholars understand the fabric of human social life. Tönnies draws a razor-sharp distinction between two fundamental types of social groupings: Gemeinschaft — the intimate, organically bound community rooted in kinship, tradition, and shared will — and Gesellschaft — the impersonal, contract-driven associations that define modern industrial society. Through meticulous philosophical reasoning, the work chronicles the great transformation of Western civilization from tightly knit village communities to the atomized, rationalistic world of capitalism and the modern state. Translated and edited by Charles P. Loomis for Harper Torchbooks, this English edition presents Tönnies' dense yet profoundly rewarding argument to a broader audience without sacrificing the conceptual rigour of the original German. The work stands as a cornerstone of classical sociology, drawing on natural law, philosophy, and empirical observation to argue that modernity's gains in efficiency and freedom come at a profound social and human cost. Alongside Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, Tönnies is credited with forging the very discipline of sociology — and this text remains an indispensable lens through which to interrogate the tensions between belonging and alienation that define life in the modern world. Will the bonds of Gemeinschaft ever be recovered, or are we irrevocably bound to the cold contracts of Gesellschaft?