The published life s work of the founding father of German sociology is now being made available for international research and teaching with a new complete edition Volume 10 is the sixth of a projected 24 volume edition The predominant theme in Tonnies writings from 1916 to 1918 is the First World War he saw literary monitoring of it as a national obligation which no intellectual could neglect His political journalism from that time is characterised by the internal political and social conditions in England that country s foreign colonial and global policies the warmongering of England Russia and international legal aspects of the Great War A counterpoint to these writings which were born of a national educational motivation is provided by his texts remembering Theodor Storm which attest to a deep friendship the significance of which has been largely overlooked by literary historians