War in social thought : Hobbes to the present / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl ; translated by Alex Skinner.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joas, Hans, 1948-
Other Authors: Knöbl, Wolfgang, 1963-, Skinner, Alex
Other title:Kriegsverdrangung. English
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Conclusion.