{Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft}[20th December 1990]

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Although I had come across Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft before, I hadn’t appreciated how the opposition worked. Must learn German!

*[references the article ‘Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft’ from Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:168-169; p169 & the beginning of the article from p168 are reproduced on the next ms page, 129, but are not reproduced here]

** Gemeinschaft ‘Communal Society’ motivated by Wesenwille, ‘Natural Will’: Family, kinship systems, clans, new**** religious communities; marked by unity and solidarity.

[‘Wesenwille, ‘Natural Will’, includes impulses, unconscious drives, desires for emotional gratification, and spontaneous expressions of sentiment.’]*

*** Gesellschaft[,] ‘Associational Society’, the creation of Kürwille, ‘Rational Will’: Bureaucracy of modern government, armies, and industrial organisations;# characterised by a divorce of means and ends.

[‘Exists not for itself but for a well-defined purpose’]*

****(NB: ‘new’)

#[‘because they are affectively [sic] and morally neutral and because they are not based on prior status but upon roles rationally constructed to serve efficiency.’]*

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