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Zusatztext "This book is an excellent synthesis of the literature on war, and the authors' own perspective on the debates is often incisive." ---Michael Mann, American Journal of Sociology Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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 disciplines! including philosophy! anthropology! and political science. Zusammenfassung While focusing on social thought, this book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. It demonstrates the profound difficulties social thinkers - including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the sociologists - had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war. 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 ...
