War and modernity /
Hans Joas ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.
- viii, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
Introduction: Wars and Values -- The Modernity of War. The Dream of a Modernity without Violence. The Modernity of War: Modernization Theory and the Problem of Violence. Ideologies of War: The First World War as Reflected in the Contemporary Social Sciences -- After War. After the War: Democracy and Anti-Communism in Berlin after 1945. After the Cold War: The Collapse of the German Democratic Republic / Sprayed and Betrayed: The Experience of Violence in the Vietnam War and Its Consequences -- War and Violence in Social Theory. Between Power Politics and Pacifist Utopia: Peace and War in Sociological Theory. Is There a Militarist Tradition in Sociology? Sociology after Auschwitz: Zygmunt Bauman's Work and the Problems of German Self-Understanding. War and the Risk Society. War the Teacher? Action Theory and the Dynamics of Violence. Martin Kohli. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.