War in social thought: Hobbes to the present

Introduction -- War and peace before sociology: social theorizing on violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic wars -- The long peace of the nineteenth century and the birth of sociology -- The classical figures of sociology and the great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century -- Sociology...

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Authors: Joas, Hans 1948- (Author) ; Knöbl, Wolfgang 1963- (Author)
Contributors: Skinner, Alex (Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Princeton University Press [2013]
In:Year: 2013
Further subjects:B Sociology History 20th century
B Sociology History 19th century
B War and society
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Summary:Introduction -- War and peace before sociology: social theorizing on violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic wars -- The long peace of the nineteenth century and the birth of sociology -- The classical figures of sociology and the great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century -- Sociology and social theory from the end of the First World War to the 1970s -- After modernization theory: historical sociology and the bellicose constitution of Western modernity -- After the East-West conflict: democratization, state collapse, and empire building
Item Description:"First published in Germany under the title Kriegsverdrängung: Ein Problem in der Geschichte der Sozialtheorie, [published by] Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2008
Literaturverz. S. [277]-313
ISBN:0691150842