Community in Historical Perspective

This is the first English translation of the first work of Otto von Gierke.

Antony Black (Edited by), Mary Fischer (Translated by)

9780521893237, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 May 2002

308 pages

22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.495 kg

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 his]