A Functioning Society: Community, Society, and Polity in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780765801593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 266 str.

Peter F. Drucker

Opis

Peter Drucker may be best known as a writer on business and management, but, in fact, these subjects are neither his first nor have they been his foremost intellectual concern. Drucker's primary concern has been community, in which the individual has status, and society, in which the individual has function. He has brought together selections from his vast writings on these subjects in A Functioning Society. This collection presents the full range of Drucker's thought on community, society, and the political structure, and constitutes an ideal introduction to his ideas. In organizing these representative writings, Drucker has chosen to be topical rather than merely chronological, with each excerpt presenting a basic theme of his work. As is characteristic of his work, A Functioning Society will attract both the general reader as well as a cross-disciplinary scholarly readership.

Spis treści

Introduction: Community, Society, Polity  Part 1: Foundations  1. From Rousseau to Hitler  2. The Conservative Counter-Revolution of 1776  3. A Conservative Approach  Part 2: The Rise of Totalitarianism  4. The Return to Demons  5. The Failure of Marxism  Part 3: The Sickness of Government  6. From Nation State to Megastate  7. The Sickness of Government  8. No More Salvation by Society  Part 4: The New Pluralism  9. The New Pluralism  10. Towards a Theory of Organizations  11. The Society of Organizations  Part 5: The Corporation as a Social Institution  12. The Governance of Corporations  13. The Corporation as a Social Institution  14. The Corporation as a Political Institution  Part 6: The Knowledge Society  15. The New Worldview  16. From Capitalism to the Knowledge Society  17. The Productivity of the Knowledge Worker  18. From Information to Communication  Part 7: The Next Society 19. The Next Society

O autorze

Peter F. Drucker