Published by De Gruyter

Gesamtausgabe (TG)

Ferdinand Tönnies

Edited by: Cornelius Bickel, Alexander Deichsel, Dieter Haselbach, Wilhelm Knelangen, Maike Manske, Carsten Schlüter-Knauer and Robert Seyfert
On behalf of: Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft e. V.

In the mid-eighties a first endeavour was initiated to institutionalise Tönnies studies. The Ferdinand Tönnies Society in Kiel and the later Ferdinand Tönnies Research Unit at the University of Hamburg Institute for Sociology undertook to process and promote the works of the Nestor of German sociology.

On the basis of the preparatory work done, a complete edition of Tönnies’ works (TG) was planned in 24 volumes. This critical complete edition will include the published authentic and authorised German and foreign-language texts as well as hitherto unpublished material in so far as it is in independent literary form.

The first 22 volumes of the TG present the published works, the 23rd volume contains the un-published material, and the final volume provides the general indexes and lists. Besides the edited texts, the volumes contain list(s) of contents, a list of abbreviations and grammalogues, a critical apparatus, name and subject indexes, and a bibliography. The editor’s preface gives brief information on sources, the condition of material, the degree of authorisation, and author corrections.

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Book 2019

Band 2 1880-1935

Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft

Bettina Clausen (†), Dieter Haselbach

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The publication of Community and Society makes available for the first time a critical edition of this influential principal work by the founder of German sociology. It documents all eight editions from 1887 to 1935. This publication focuses on the last manuscript edition, annotated with extensive explanations and text variants.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110590975
ISBN:: 9783110590975
ISBN:: 9783110158359
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Band 5 1900–1904

Schriften

Bärbel Carstens, Uwe Carstens

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The years from 1900 to 1904 were critically important for sociologist and philosopher Ferdinand Tönnies. The diversity of themes he addressed reveals his extraordinary knowledge and persistent interest in the predominant issues of his era. In Politics and Morality, he proposed several preconditions for a specifically modern ethics, and also wrote about social development in Germany.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110581072
ISBN:: 9783110581072
ISBN:: 9783110158380
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociological Theory
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Band 7 1905-1906

Schiller als Zeitbürger und Politiker. Strafrechtsreform. Philosophische Terminologie in psychologisch-soziologischer Ansicht. Schriften. Rezensionen.

Arno Bammé, Rolf Fechner

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The printed life’s work of the founding father of German sociology is being made available in a complete edition for international teaching and research. This volume is the seventh of a projected 24-volume edition. The principal themes in the years 1905 and 1906 are the Schiller († 1805) Anniversary Year and political sociology, together with writings on criminality and punishment. In addition, Tönnies was moved to provide popular education with writings and analyses on the politicisation of Wilhelminian society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216394
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015840-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021639-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociological Theory
Subject:: Sociology, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Band 9 1911–1915

Leitfaden einer Vorlesung über theoretische Nationalökonomie. Englische Weltpolitik in englischer Beleuchtung. Schriften. Rezensionen

Arno Mohr, Rolf Fechner

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802887
ISBN:: 9783110802887
ISBN:: 9783110158427
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociological Theory
Subject:: Sociology, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Band 10 1916–1918

Die niederländische Uebersee-Trust-Gesellschaft. Der englische Staat und der deutsche Staat. Weltkrieg und Völkerrecht. Frei Finland. Theodor Storm Menschheit und Volk. Rezensionen

Arno Mohr, Rolf Fechner

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The published life's work of the founding father of German sociology is now being made available for international research and teaching with a new complete edition. Volume 10 is the sixth of a projected 24-volume edition. The predominant theme in Tönnies' writings from 1916 to 1918 is the First World War; he saw literary monitoring of it as a national obligation which no intellectual could neglect. His political journalism from that time is characterised by the internal political and social conditions in England, that country's foreign, colonial and global policies, the "warmongering" of England and Russia and international legal aspects of the Great War. A counterpoint to these writings, which were born of a national educational motivation, is provided by his texts remembering Theodor Storm, which attest to a deep friendship, the significance of which has been largely overlooked by literary historians.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110904543
ISBN:: 9783110904543
ISBN:: 9783110158434
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: History of Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Band 14 1922

Kritik der öffentlichen Meinung

Alexander Deichsel, Rolf Fechner, Rainer Waßner

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Das gedruckte Lebenswerk eines Gründervaters der deutschen Soziologie wird durch eine Gesamtedition für die internationale Forschung und Lehre erschlossen. Mit Band 14 erscheint der vierte der auf 24 Bände angelegten Tönnies Gesamtausgabe.

In seiner 1922 erschienenen Schrift Kritik der öffentlichen Meinung reflektiert Tönnies umfassend über Grundlagen, Strukturen und Wirkungsmechanismen der öffentlichen Meinung. Sie ist eines der bekanntesten Werke Tönnies'.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110903195
ISBN:: 9783110903195
ISBN:: 9783110153491
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Public and Political Communication
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Book 2000

Band 15 1923–1925

Innere Kolonisation in Preußen, Soziologische Studien und Kritiken - Erste Sammlung, Schriften 1923

Dieter Haselbach

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800272
ISBN:: 9783110800272
ISBN:: 9783110158472
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Band 17 1926

Das Eigentum – Soziologische Studien und Kritiken Sammlung II

Dieter Haselbach

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TG 17 makes two books available once more that were written by Tönnies in 1926. The slim monograph "Property" deals with a topical subject. The collection "Sociological Studies and Critiques II" makes a large number of Tönnies’s more minor writings accessible, in which he develops his approach to sociology between the great monographs "Community and Society" (1887, TG 2) and "Introduction to Sociology" (1931, TG 21).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768671
ISBN:: 9783110768671
ISBN:: 9783110158496
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociological Theory
Subject:: Sociology, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Band 21 1931

Einführung in die Soziologie. Schriften · Rezensionen

Ferdinand Tönnies, Dieter Haselbach

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The 21st volume in Tönnies’ Complete Works contains the last great sociological "introduction" as well as his entries in Vierkandt’s Handwörterbuch der Soziologie and a series of journalistic articles he wrote on the political situation in Germany in 1931.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718379
ISBN:: 9783110718379
ISBN:: 9783110158533
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociological Theory
Subject:: Sociology, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Band 22,1 1931–1936

Geist der Neuzeit. Schriften. Rezensionen

Lars Clausen

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800289
ISBN:: 9783110800289
ISBN:: 9783110158540
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Band 22,2 1932-1936

Geist der Neuzeit, Teil II, III und IV

Bärbel Carstens, Uwe Carstens

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When Volume 22 of the Complete Works was published in 1998, it was assumed that Parts 2, 3, and 4 of Tönnies’ Spirit of the Modern Age had been lost. After years of research, Uwe Carstens discovered the lost manuscripts for Parts 2, 3, and 4, which are presented in this volume.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110466003
ISBN:: 9783110466003
ISBN:: 9783110460278
ISBN:: 9783110465198
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: History of Sociology
Subject:: Sociological Theory
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Band 23/Teilband 2 Nachgelassene Schriften

1919-1936

Brigitte Zander-Lüllwitz, Jürgen Zander

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This second part-volume of Ferdinand Tönnies' Posthumous Writings contains mainly unpublished texts from the period 1919-1936. The texts are a contribution to the academic and political discourse on problems in current affairs. The monograph "Neue Botschaft" makes Tönnies' scientific credo and his personal beliefs available to the public for the first time; the text forms the hidden cornerstone of his work.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910216
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018688-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091021-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Public and Political Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter