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by Harry Liebersohn

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Fate and Utopia in German Sociology provides a lucid introduction to a major sociological tradition in Western thought. It is an intellectual history of five scholars--Ferdinand Tnnies, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Georg Lukcs--who created modern German sociology over the course of fifty years, from 1870 to 1923.

Liebersohn portrays his subjects as thinkers who were deeply immersed in the politics and poetry of their time, and whose sociology benefited in unexpected ways from sources as diverse as medieval mysticism and Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. He maps out their shared sociological discourse, shaped in response to the fragmentation they perceived in public life, in education and the arts, and in Protestant religious life.

German sociology has generally been interpreted as having a tragic perspective on modern society (as implied by the pervasive idiom of "fate"); Liebersohn argues that this sense of fate was matched by an underlying utopian hope for an end to fragmentation, rooted for all of his subjects in the Lutheran idea of community.The book's five biographical chapters are structured to discuss ideas of community, society, and personality in the work of the individual discussed, while there is a general movement among the chapters from community to society to socialism. Many specific texts are discussed, and the overall orientation is one of intellectual history rather than sociological analysis.

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In this lucid historical introduction to a major tradition in Western thought, Harry Liebersohn discusses five scholars-Ferdinand Tonnies, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Georg Lukacs---who were responsible for the creation of modern German sociology. This tradition has generally been interpreted as having a tragic, 'fatalistic' perspective on modern society; Liebersohn argues that this sense of fate was matched by an underlying utopian hope for an end to fragmentation, rooted for all of his subjects in the Lutheran idea of community.

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  • Title Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923
  • Author Harry Liebersohn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1990-08-15
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780262620796 / 0262620790
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 5.86 x 0.72 in (23.01 x 14.88 x 1.83 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Sociology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 301.094

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Harry Liebersohn is assistant professor and director of European studies in the Department of History at The Claremont Graduate School.

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