Gemeinschaft menurut ferdinand tonnies biography

The first set of classical insights I would like to apply to the question of the social and the conditions of possibility for agonal democracy are drawn from the work of Ferdinand Tonnies.

A German social thinker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Tonnies is an interesting figure in classical sociology who occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the contemporary sociological imagination, generally represented at the periphery of what one might call the ‘second tier’ of the pantheon of classics.

Even granting the contingent, often historically revisionist, and deeply contestable character of the so-called canonical designation (Baehr ), Tonnies is—with a few notable exceptions (Deflem ; Wilding ; Inglis )—surprisingly under-explored in Englishspeaking scholarship, given the relative consensus about his status within the canon.

A socialist and somewhat nostalgic champion of rural life, Tonnies offers an interesting and nuanc