ISBN:
0691150842
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9780691150840
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9781400844746
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 325 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Uniform Title:
Kriegsverdrangung 〈English〉
Parallel Title:
Print version War in Social Thought
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
War and society
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Sociology -- History -- 19th century
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Sociology -- History -- 20th century
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Sociology ; History ; 19th century
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Sociology ; History ; 20th century
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War and society
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
7. After the East-West Conflict: Democratization, State Collapse, and Empire Building8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
Note:
"First published in Germany under the title Kriegsverdrangung: Ein Problem in der Geschichte der Sozialtheorie, [published by] Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2008."
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