Community in Historical Perspective (Paperback, New Ed)

This is the first English translation of the first work of Otto von Gierke, arguably the greatest historian of ideas of the nineteenth century. Community in Historical Perspective includes much of the first volume of Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht, originally published in 1868, and the texts translated here have become essential reading for anyone interested not only in the history of ideas and alternatives to conventional socialism and liberalism, but also, as recent experience has shown, contemporary European affairs. Von Gierke’s represented an unparalleled attempt to justify a political programme of structural pluralism, and to interpret the entire course of European history from the Dark Ages onwards as a progressive interaction between ‘fellowship’ (or ‘comradeship’) and ‘lordship’ (or ‘sovereignty’). This interaction was to generate a polity of autonomous associations within a constitutional state based upon consent and federal unity, and von Gierke here laid the basis for a distinctively Germanic programme of federalism and quasi-pluralism, with a strongly nationalist emphasis upon the unique capacity of Germans, despite long periods of absolute rule, for corporate self-management.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2002
First published:	1990
Editors:	Antony Black
Translators:	Mary Fischer
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	308
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-89323-7
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	German
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	0-521-89323-2
Barcode:	9780521893237

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