War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present
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1. Verfasser: Joas, Hans (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2012
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This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of thinking about war over more than 350 years--from the premodern era to the period of German idealism and the Scottish and French enlightenments, and then from the birth of sociology in the nineteenth century through the twentieth century. While focusing on social thought, the book draws on many dis
Cover; War in Social Thought; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. War and Peace before Sociology: Social Theorizing on Violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic Wars; 3. The Long Peace of the Nineteenth Century and the Birth of Sociology; 4. The Classical Figures of Sociology and the Great Seminal Catastrophe of the Twentieth Century; 5. Sociology and Social Theory from the End of the First World War to the 1970s; 6. After Modernization Theory: Historical Sociology and the Bellicose Constitution of Western Modernity
7. After the East-West Conflict: Democratization, State Collapse, and Empire Building8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (337 p.)
ISBN:1283683547
1400844746
9781283683548
9781400844746

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