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War and modernity / Hans Joas ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: viii, 248 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745626440
  • 9780745626444
  • 0745626459
  • 9780745626451
Uniform titles:
  • Kriege und werte. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.66 21
LOC classification:
  • HM554 .J613 2003
Contents:
Introduction: Wars and Values -- Pt. I. The Modernity of War. 1. The Dream of a Modernity without Violence. 2. The Modernity of War: Modernization Theory and the Problem of Violence. 3. Ideologies of War: The First World War as Reflected in the Contemporary Social Sciences -- Pt. II. After War. 4. After the War: Democracy and Anti-Communism in Berlin after 1945. 5. After the Cold War: The Collapse of the German Democratic Republic / Martin Kohli. 6. Sprayed and Betrayed: The Experience of Violence in the Vietnam War and Its Consequences -- Pt. III. War and Violence in Social Theory. 7. Between Power Politics and Pacifist Utopia: Peace and War in Sociological Theory. 8. Is There a Militarist Tradition in Sociology? 9. Sociology after Auschwitz: Zygmunt Bauman's Work and the Problems of German Self-Understanding. 10. War and the Risk Society. 11. War the Teacher? 12. Action Theory and the Dynamics of Violence.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.

Introduction: Wars and Values -- Pt. I. The Modernity of War. 1. The Dream of a Modernity without Violence. 2. The Modernity of War: Modernization Theory and the Problem of Violence. 3. Ideologies of War: The First World War as Reflected in the Contemporary Social Sciences -- Pt. II. After War. 4. After the War: Democracy and Anti-Communism in Berlin after 1945. 5. After the Cold War: The Collapse of the German Democratic Republic / Martin Kohli. 6. Sprayed and Betrayed: The Experience of Violence in the Vietnam War and Its Consequences -- Pt. III. War and Violence in Social Theory. 7. Between Power Politics and Pacifist Utopia: Peace and War in Sociological Theory. 8. Is There a Militarist Tradition in Sociology? 9. Sociology after Auschwitz: Zygmunt Bauman's Work and the Problems of German Self-Understanding. 10. War and the Risk Society. 11. War the Teacher? 12. Action Theory and the Dynamics of Violence.

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