Ferdinand Tönnies and Friedrich Paulsen
Conciliatory Iconoclasts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3970452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Bond (0000-0002-9252-7883, ORT Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-53 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770903516204 |
| OpenAlex | W1987149368 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 1 |
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. Beyond the shared scientific agenda of monism, they were convinced of the vocation of intellectuals in social legislation, which Paulsen pursued through pedagogy, while Tönnies became a social activist. Their interest in forms of socialism, romanticism and pessimism had varying consequences due to the differences in temperament between the political realist Paulsen, whose choices were more expedient for career advancement, and the political idealist Tönnies. Their relationship is an instance of the specific rapport that Tönnies characterises as intellectual friendship
Art · Empiricism · Epistemology · Friendship · Historicism · Humanities · Literature · Monism · Political science · Politics · Rationalism · Romanticism · Social science · Sociology · German Social Sciences and History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |