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The limits of community : a critique of social radicalism / Helmuth Plessner ; translated by Andrew Wallace
Bib ID 1716868
Format BookBook
Author
Plessner, Helmuth, 1892-
 
Uniform Title Grenzen der Gemeinschaft. English
Description New York : Humanity Books, 1999 
x, 195 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 1573927236 (cloth : alk. paper) 
Summary

"A contemporary of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) achieved recognition as a social philosopher during the three decades following World War II."--BOOK JACKET. "In The Limits of Community (1924), Plessner presents the appeal and the dangers of rejecting modern society for the sake of the ideal of community. The ideal, he suggests, is to escape the anonymity of mass society; the danger is the eventual loss of human dignity and the rise of an authoritarian politics based on violence and fanaticism. Social radicalism is born from the underside of modern society. It takes root among the disenfranchised and, especially, among the young. Attuned to the political undercurrents of his own society, Plessner anticipated the rise of German fascism nine years before its fateful emergence onto the world stage."--BOOK JACKET.

"The Limits of Community will be of interest to scholars and students of German intellectual history and of political and social theory."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • 1. Problem and Method of the Critique
  • 2. Between the Morality of the Master and the Morality of the Community
  • 3. Blood and Ideal: Possibilities of Community
  • 4. The Struggle for a Genuine Face: The Risk of Ridicule
  • 5. Paths to Unassailability: Ceremony and Prestige
  • 6. The Logic of Diplomacy. The Hygiene of Tact
  • 7. The Utopia of Nonviolence and the Duty of Power.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Radicalism - Germany - History.  |  Social problems - Germany.  |  Political anthropology - Germany.  |  Germany - Politics and government - 20th century.
Other authors/contributors Wallace, Andrew, 1958-

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