Joas / Knöbl War in Social Thought

Hobbes to the Present
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4474-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Joas, Hans

Knöbl, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

- Introduction 1



- War and Peace before Sociology: Social Theorizing on Violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic Wars 16



- The Long Peace of the Nineteenth Century and the Birth of Sociology 65



- The Classical Figures of Sociology and the Great Seminal Catastrophe of the Twentieth Century 116



- Sociology and Social Theory from the End of the First World War to the 1970s 156



- After Modernization Theory: Historical Sociology and the Bellicose Constitution of Western Modernity 194



- After the East-West Conflict: Democratization, State Collapse, and Empire Building 217



- Conclusion 252

Notes 257

Bibliography 277

Name Index 315

Subject Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Hans Joas is professor of sociology and social thought at the University of Chicago and a permanent fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg. Wolfgang Knöbl is professor of sociology at Göttingen University. They are the authors of many books and the coauthors of Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures.