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.
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