N Bond
Biographic Data
| ID | 22703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Bond |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Bond |
| SIGNATURE | BOND N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lyon 1 Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9252-7883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epistemological Nationalism and the Founding of European Sociology
The relationship between the pioneers in sociology as a university discipline Ferdinand Tönnies and Emile Durkheim has been presented by juxtaposing their stands on the ‘social fact’ versus ‘social will’, methodology, specific topics such as religion or suicide, the importance of statistics for the field, and the contrast between the ‘mechanical’ and the ‘organic’ (Aldous 1972; Marcucci 2017; Mesure 2013). Here we look at these thinkers’ first wo…
Tönnies on the tension between community and society during the First World War
Ferdinand Tönnies' main legacy in social theory, the community-society dichotomy developed in his work Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Society, GuG) of 1887, showed its potential for grasping but also for creating social reality during the First World War (WWI), a conflagration welcomed by some of the most prominent intellectuals throughout Europe. One the most important terms for mobilising support for the war effort in Germany was …
Market and Violence
Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal approaches seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the p…
Designing and managing interpretive experiences at religious sites
Ferdinand Tönnies and Enlightenment
Ferdinand Tönnies, the founder of sociology, has been characterised as contributing to the “destruction of reason,” although he viewed himself as a champion of Enlightenment with a social vocation. Here, we shall consider Tönnies’s discussion of the epistemological bases of what he called “rationalism”: his theory of the state, based on the rationalism of Hobbes, and of society, based on the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith and H…
Ferdinand Tönnies' appraisal of Karl Marx
Ferdinand Tönnies determined the future course of German sociology with his Marxist analysis of capitalist society in Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft. He published a biographical introduction to Marx in 1920 and produced discourses influenced by Marxism throughout his life. Notwithstanding his admiration for Marx and his interest in remedying inequities in distribution, he differs with Marx inter alia over the contribution of production factors to …
L’heure zéro
L'expression {Stunde Null} ou « heure zéro » dénote l'aube d'un nouvel âge politique, économique et moral, un renouveau venant de l'anéantissement du Troisième Reich. Ici, nous proposons de situer l'Allemagne à l'heure zéro sur les plans matériel, démographique, économique, commercial, politique, social et culturel. L'heure zéro en Allemagne inaugure une époque de division mondiale en blocs utilitaristes, dont un aspect est un esprit post-nationa…
Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber
The present article considers the encounter between Max Weber and Ferdinand Tönnies, who was the first modern German sociologist, and their reciprocal influence. Here, we consider their concepts, particularly the forms in which Weber adapted the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft dichotomy, as well as differing attitudes towards values, epistemology, capitalism, naturalism, enlightenment and religion, which resulted from the different consequences they dr…
Ferdinand Tönnies and academic ‘socialism’
Modern sociology emerged in part out of the milieu of ‘state socialists’ in imperial Germany. An exploration of the milieu and its discourses provides insights as to the sense of the founding work of German sociology, Ferdinand Tönnies’ Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, the political context in which historicist economics were transformed into sociology, explicit and implicit influences behind sociology in the writings of von Stein, Rodbertus, Wagne…
Rational Natural Law and German Sociology
While the roots of modern German sociology are often traced back to historicism, the importance of rational natural law in the inception of the founding work of German sociology, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft by Ferdinand Tönnies, intended as a ‘creative synthesis’ between rational natural law and romantic historicism, should not be overlooked. We show how in his earliest scholarly work on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke the shift in the meaning of …
Ferdinand Tönnies's Romanticism
The romantic influences behind Ferdinand Tönnies's work, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft [Community and society] (1887), though significant, have been largely obscured due, on the one hand, to the disrepute into which iticism as a philosophical and political movement fell after 1945 and, on the other, to Tönnies's own ambivalence towards the movement and the period. Here we explore the impact of iticism on the revaluation of sentiment, critiques of…
Ferdinand Tönnies and Friedrich Paulsen
Ferdinand Tönnies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, a work of global import and condensate of the history of ideas, was much influenced by the philosopher Friedrich Paulsen. The study of their friendship shows how these intellectuals chose to adopt and adapt paradigms of the European legacy—rationalism and empiricism on the one hand, rationalism and romantic historicism on the other—in achieving creative idiosyncratic syntheses of idealistic monism…
Démocratie et opposition extraparlementaire en Allemagne sous la Grande Coalition
La culture politique de la République fédérale d'Allemagne présente, en 1968, un souci répandu de l'effondrement du régime démocratique parlementaire. L'effritement de l'autorité des partis de l'Union CDU et CSU, l'exclusion d'une partie du spectrum de l'opinion à l'assemblée, l'interdiction de certains partis politiques et l'impression chez une partie de la population d'une compromission et complicité entre les partis de la Grande Coalition alim…
Ferdinand Tönnies and Western European Positivism
One of the most striking mutations of the human sciences occurred with its transfer across the cultural border seen to separate Germany from its western neighbours at the end of the nineteenth cent
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
Ferdinand Tönnies's oeuvre Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, published in 1887, has been seminal for the social and human sciences in general, and is no less interesting for intellectual historians and theoreticians of concept formation in particular. Tönnies subscribed to the belief that terms could be rendered less ambiguous, defining the words Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft more narrowly than their contemporary usage. In so doing, he sought to rec…
De la société à la sociologie
Les discussions sur l’existence ou non d’un deutscher Sonderweg, d’une « voie allemande » originale, font partie, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, de l’histoire de la culture allemande. Ce débat mérite d’être mené en particulier, fût-ce rétrospectivement, à propos de la science de la société. D’un côté, vers la fin du xixe siècle, se constitue en Allemagne une « sociologie » illustrée par les noms de Tönnies, de Simmel, de Weber, et qui, malgré …
Interpreting the Objectively „strange” and the Strangely „objective”. Hybrid Texts in Social Discourse and in the Social Sciences
Our assessment of the use of the concept of hybrid texts in analysing translations of social and political discourse shows that the „deliberate and conscious” deployment of „strange” features can serve to heighten or to create an awareness of real, putative or contrived differences in assumptions between linguistic cultures. In their alien context, certain terms can spin off unforeseen paradigms and perspectives, as is evidenced in the crosscultu…
Designing and managing interpretive experiences at religious sites
Rational Natural Law and German Sociology
While the roots of modern German sociology are often traced back to historicism, the importance of rational natural law in the inception of the founding work of German sociology, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft by Ferdinand Tönnies, intended as a ‘creative synthesis’ between rational natural law and romantic historicism, should not be overlooked. We show how in his earliest scholarly work on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke the shift in the meaning of …
Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber
The present article considers the encounter between Max Weber and Ferdinand Tönnies, who was the first modern German sociologist, and their reciprocal influence. Here, we consider their concepts, particularly the forms in which Weber adapted the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft dichotomy, as well as differing attitudes towards values, epistemology, capitalism, naturalism, enlightenment and religion, which resulted from the different consequences they dr…
Ferdinand Tönnies and academic ‘socialism’
Modern sociology emerged in part out of the milieu of ‘state socialists’ in imperial Germany. An exploration of the milieu and its discourses provides insights as to the sense of the founding work of German sociology, Ferdinand Tönnies’ Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, the political context in which historicist economics were transformed into sociology, explicit and implicit influences behind sociology in the writings of von Stein, Rodbertus, Wagne…
Ferdinand Tönnies's Romanticism
The romantic influences behind Ferdinand Tönnies's work, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft [Community and society] (1887), though significant, have been largely obscured due, on the one hand, to the disrepute into which iticism as a philosophical and political movement fell after 1945 and, on the other, to Tönnies's own ambivalence towards the movement and the period. Here we explore the impact of iticism on the revaluation of sentiment, critiques of…
Démocratie et opposition extraparlementaire en Allemagne sous la Grande Coalition
La culture politique de la République fédérale d'Allemagne présente, en 1968, un souci répandu de l'effondrement du régime démocratique parlementaire. L'effritement de l'autorité des partis de l'Union CDU et CSU, l'exclusion d'une partie du spectrum de l'opinion à l'assemblée, l'interdiction de certains partis politiques et l'impression chez une partie de la population d'une compromission et complicité entre les partis de la Grande Coalition alim…
Ferdinand Tönnies and Western European Positivism
One of the most striking mutations of the human sciences occurred with its transfer across the cultural border seen to separate Germany from its western neighbours at the end of the nineteenth cent
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
Ferdinand Tönnies's oeuvre Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, published in 1887, has been seminal for the social and human sciences in general, and is no less interesting for intellectual historians and theoreticians of concept formation in particular. Tönnies subscribed to the belief that terms could be rendered less ambiguous, defining the words Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft more narrowly than their contemporary usage. In so doing, he sought to rec…
Interpreting the Objectively „strange” and the Strangely „objective”. Hybrid Texts in Social Discourse and in the Social Sciences
Our assessment of the use of the concept of hybrid texts in analysing translations of social and political discourse shows that the „deliberate and conscious” deployment of „strange” features can serve to heighten or to create an awareness of real, putative or contrived differences in assumptions between linguistic cultures. In their alien context, certain terms can spin off unforeseen paradigms and perspectives, as is evidenced in the crosscultu…
De la société à la sociologie
Les discussions sur l’existence ou non d’un deutscher Sonderweg, d’une « voie allemande » originale, font partie, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, de l’histoire de la culture allemande. Ce débat mérite d’être mené en particulier, fût-ce rétrospectivement, à propos de la science de la société. D’un côté, vers la fin du xixe siècle, se constitue en Allemagne une « sociologie » illustrée par les noms de Tönnies, de Simmel, de Weber, et qui, malgré …
Démocratie et opposition extraparlementaire en Allemagne sous la Grande Coalition
La culture politique de la République fédérale d'Allemagne présente, en 1968, un souci répandu de l'effondrement du régime démocratique parlementaire. L'effritement de l'autorité des partis de l'Union CDU et CSU, l'exclusion d'une partie du spectrum de l'opinion à l'assemblée, l'interdiction de certains partis politiques et l'impression chez une partie de la population d'une compromission et complicité entre les partis de la Grande Coalition alim…
Ferdinand Tönnies and Western European Positivism
One of the most striking mutations of the human sciences occurred with its transfer across the cultural border seen to separate Germany from its western neighbours at the end of the nineteenth cent
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
Ferdinand Tönnies's oeuvre Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, published in 1887, has been seminal for the social and human sciences in general, and is no less interesting for intellectual historians and theoreticians of concept formation in particular. Tönnies subscribed to the belief that terms could be rendered less ambiguous, defining the words Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft more narrowly than their contemporary usage. In so doing, he sought to rec…
Ferdinand Tönnies and Friedrich Paulsen
Ferdinand Tönnies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, a work of global import and condensate of the history of ideas, was much influenced by the philosopher Friedrich Paulsen. The study of their friendship shows how these intellectuals chose to adopt and adapt paradigms of the European legacy—rationalism and empiricism on the one hand, rationalism and romantic historicism on the other—in achieving creative idiosyncratic syntheses of idealistic monism…
Ferdinand Tönnies and academic ‘socialism’
Modern sociology emerged in part out of the milieu of ‘state socialists’ in imperial Germany. An exploration of the milieu and its discourses provides insights as to the sense of the founding work of German sociology, Ferdinand Tönnies’ Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, the political context in which historicist economics were transformed into sociology, explicit and implicit influences behind sociology in the writings of von Stein, Rodbertus, Wagne…
Rational Natural Law and German Sociology
While the roots of modern German sociology are often traced back to historicism, the importance of rational natural law in the inception of the founding work of German sociology, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft by Ferdinand Tönnies, intended as a ‘creative synthesis’ between rational natural law and romantic historicism, should not be overlooked. We show how in his earliest scholarly work on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke the shift in the meaning of …
Ferdinand Tönnies's Romanticism
The romantic influences behind Ferdinand Tönnies's work, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft [Community and society] (1887), though significant, have been largely obscured due, on the one hand, to the disrepute into which iticism as a philosophical and political movement fell after 1945 and, on the other, to Tönnies's own ambivalence towards the movement and the period. Here we explore the impact of iticism on the revaluation of sentiment, critiques of…
L’heure zéro
L'expression {Stunde Null} ou « heure zéro » dénote l'aube d'un nouvel âge politique, économique et moral, un renouveau venant de l'anéantissement du Troisième Reich. Ici, nous proposons de situer l'Allemagne à l'heure zéro sur les plans matériel, démographique, économique, commercial, politique, social et culturel. L'heure zéro en Allemagne inaugure une époque de division mondiale en blocs utilitaristes, dont un aspect est un esprit post-nationa…
Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber
The present article considers the encounter between Max Weber and Ferdinand Tönnies, who was the first modern German sociologist, and their reciprocal influence. Here, we consider their concepts, particularly the forms in which Weber adapted the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft dichotomy, as well as differing attitudes towards values, epistemology, capitalism, naturalism, enlightenment and religion, which resulted from the different consequences they dr…
Designing and managing interpretive experiences at religious sites
Ferdinand Tönnies and Enlightenment
Ferdinand Tönnies, the founder of sociology, has been characterised as contributing to the “destruction of reason,” although he viewed himself as a champion of Enlightenment with a social vocation. Here, we shall consider Tönnies’s discussion of the epistemological bases of what he called “rationalism”: his theory of the state, based on the rationalism of Hobbes, and of society, based on the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith and H…
Ferdinand Tönnies' appraisal of Karl Marx
Ferdinand Tönnies determined the future course of German sociology with his Marxist analysis of capitalist society in Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft. He published a biographical introduction to Marx in 1920 and produced discourses influenced by Marxism throughout his life. Notwithstanding his admiration for Marx and his interest in remedying inequities in distribution, he differs with Marx inter alia over the contribution of production factors to …
Market and Violence
Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal approaches seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the p…
Tönnies on the tension between community and society during the First World War
Ferdinand Tönnies' main legacy in social theory, the community-society dichotomy developed in his work Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Society, GuG) of 1887, showed its potential for grasping but also for creating social reality during the First World War (WWI), a conflagration welcomed by some of the most prominent intellectuals throughout Europe. One the most important terms for mobilising support for the war effort in Germany was …
Epistemological Nationalism and the Founding of European Sociology
The relationship between the pioneers in sociology as a university discipline Ferdinand Tönnies and Emile Durkheim has been presented by juxtaposing their stands on the ‘social fact’ versus ‘social will’, methodology, specific topics such as religion or suicide, the importance of statistics for the field, and the contrast between the ‘mechanical’ and the ‘organic’ (Aldous 1972; Marcucci 2017; Mesure 2013). Here we look at these thinkers’ first wo…
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