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.
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Original Language: German
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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.
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Man owes what he is to union with his fellow man. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seignorial law, gild movement, labour fellowship, gild constitution, lordship groups, modern association movement, economic fellowships, rural fellowships, territorial communes, property fellowship, territorial estates, craft gilds, trade gilds, moral fellowship, gild system, juristic personality, free fellowship, communal constitution, higher universality, merchant gilds, territorial lord, lesser associations, economic personality, economic organisms, incorporated trades Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, French Revolution, German Empire, Thirty Years War, German Hansa, North Germany New!
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seignorial law, gild movement, labour fellowship, gild constitution, lordship groups, modern association movement, economic fellowships, rural fellowships, territorial communes, property fellowship, territorial estates, craft gilds, trade gilds, moral fellowship, gild system, juristic personality, free fellowship, communal constitution, higher universality, merchant gilds, territorial lord, lesser associations, economic personality, economic organisms, incorporated trades Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Political Theories of the Middle Age by Otto Gierke in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Guilds and Civil Society in European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present by Antony Black in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Political Theories of the Middle Age by Otto Gierke in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Political Theories by O. Gierke in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People by F. A. Hayek in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Left in Search of a Center by Michael Crozier on 4 pages
- Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion) by James W. Skillen on 4 pages
- Oakeshott on History (British Idealist Studies) by Luke O'Sullivan on page 190, and Back Matter
- The Reform of Utopia (Law, Ethics and Governance) by Wayne Hudson on page 101, and Back Matter
- Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society by Sung Ho Kim on page 76, and Back Matter
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