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050 00 $aHM131$b.B3994 1993
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100 1 $aBendix, Reinhard.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50006884
245 10 $aUnsettled affinities /$cReinhard Bendix ; edited by John Bendix, with epilogues by John Bendix and Rudolph von Thadden.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bTransaction Publishers,$c[1993], ©1993.
263 $a9306
300 $axii, 226 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Intellectual Emigration from Hitler's Germany -- 2. Embattled Reason - a Report -- 3. Definitions of Community in Western Civilization -- 4. Relative Backwardness and Intellectual Mobilization -- 5. The Case of Germany -- 6. Politics and the Legitimation of Power -- 7. Modern States and Civil Societies in Comparative Perspective -- 8. A Country Divided: Germany after 1945 -- 9. Unfinished Thoughts on German Unity / John Bendix -- 10. Endangered Affiliations / Rudolf von Thadden.
520 $aUnsettled Affinities was Reinhard Bendix's final work. It has a unique place in his writings, as it continues the themes contained in the two volumes of Embattled Reason and extends them in his consideration of the idea of community. For Bendix, our affinities are personally, socially, and politically unsettled and unsettling.
520 8 $aFrom birth, each person goes through a life-cycle, buffeted by circumstance and uneasily suspended between the risks of individual opportunity and the need for psychological support from others. All of us stand at the intersection of many social groups formed by the family, social clubs, occupation, or given by the ethnic and national affiliation into which we are born.
520 8 $aBendix perceived these psychological and social groups as a source of strength as well as the source of the particularist drives that ultimately aim to serve universalist aspirations. It is in this series of paradoxes that political tasks arise: how to deal with the scarcity of goods and the inequality of life changes. Unsettled Affinities explores the ethical paradoxes of personal affiliation, social universalism, and political unity in Western civilization.
520 8 $aThe work is divided into three parts: an initial, personal reflection on the author's emigration from Hitler's Germany; an extended examination of the social definitions of community in Western civilization; and a consideration of politics, civil society, and the legitimation of power. In the social and political sections, special attention is given to Germany.
520 8 $aThe consideration of Germany in the post-Communist world was not completed. Using notes, letters, and lectures, John Bendix, the author's son, has provided an epilogue that gives indications of the direction Reinhard Bendix's thought was heading, and Rudolf von Thadden has contributed an appropriate final thought in his "Endangered Affiliations."
650 0 $aSocial groups.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123946
650 0 $aCommunities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029195
651 0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1945-1990.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001651
700 1 $aBendix, John,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87842451
852 00 $boff,leh$hHM131$i.B3994 1993