An English translation of the first work of Otto von Gierke, the historian of ideas. The book lays bare von Gierke's methodology and overview of historical dial... » 

An English translation of the first work of Otto von Gierke, the historian of ideas. The book lays bare von Gierke's methodology and overview of historical dialectics, without which his later, more detailed studies of moral, legal and political ideas cannot properly be understood. «