War in social thought : Hobbes to the present /
"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...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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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.