GIERKE, Otto von.

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Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht. First editions, the full set of the author's life work, published over almost five decades, presenting a vast account of the mutual development of the idea of natural rights with the evolution of societies."His subject was the construction and development of social groups and human associations in relation to legal and ethical theory... Gierke's first two volumes gave exhaustive treatment to the growth of associations and corporations in Germany, but his theme widened in the last two volumes to provide a history of the theory of the State and Corporation from the ancient world to modern times... This is theory of the ideal or natural law of human society, and of the ideal or natural rights of man... We have seen it enforced in practice in the Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution. To all this Gierke's immense work forms the summa; to it he brought a vast leaning and an originality of treatment based on his own conception of the organic group - tribe, city or nation - which have given his subject matter a new dimension" (PMM).

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