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Teachers College • Columbia University Class Meetings  1:00-2:40 at 308 Lewisohn Hall MSTU5606-MSTU5607 Navigator Course Overview Help on Course Tools Bibliographic Resources Course Participants Class 1/17 1/17 1/24 1/31 2/7 2/14 2/21 2/28 3/7 3/21 3/28 4/4 4/11 4/18 4/25 5/2 9/6 9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25 11/1 11/8 11/15 11/29 12/6 12/13 12/20 Wiki Work Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1963) Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) Roland Barthes (1915-1980) Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) Paulo Freire (1921-1997) Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Jrgen Habermas (1929- ) Fredric Jameson (1934- ) MSTU5606-wrap-up Communication Theory Social thought, mapping a context Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) Georg Simmel (1858-1918) Max Weber (1864-1920) Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) John Dewey (1859-1952) George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) Max Scheler (1874-1928) Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Robbie McClintock and Frank Moretti, Instructors

• Office hours:
  • McClintock (322 Thompson Hall): Wednesdays, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Thursdays, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Schedule slot with Neemisha Martin @ 212 678 3344 or nmartin@tc.edu)
  • Moretti (603 Lewisohn Hall): By appointment (Schedule time with Teresa Gonzales @ 212 854 1692 or teresa@columbia.edu)

Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936)

• For a brief bio, see Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Discussion reading

• Ferdinand Tönnies. Community and Civil Society. Jose Harris and Margaret Hollis, trans. (New York: Cambridge University Press 2001). $25.00, especially "Book Two: Natural Will and Rational Will," pp. 95-175, Electronic Reserve; and Book Three: "The Sociological Basis of Natural Law," pp.179-243, Electronic Reserve.
• Werner J. Cahnman. "Tönnies and Durkheim," in Cahnman, ed., Ferdinand Tönnies: A New Evaluation -- Essays and Documents. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973, pp. 239-256. Electronic Reserve.

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• Ferdinand Tönnies. Community and Civil Society. Jose Harris and Margaret Hollis, trans. (New York: Cambridge University Press 2001). Especially "Book One: A Gerneral Classification of Key Ideas," pp. 1-91, Electronic Reserve.   $25.00.

• Harry Liebersohn. Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1992.

• Arthur Mitzman. Sociology and Estrangement: Three Sociologists of Imperial Germany. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1987.