War in social thought
Subtitle: Hobbes to the present
By: Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl ; translated by Alex Skinner
Contributors: Knöbl, Wolfgang, 1963-; Skinner, Alex
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780691150840
Subjects: War and society; Sociology; History
Work titles: Kriegsverdrangung
Notes: "First published in Germany under the title Kriegsverdrangung: Ein Problem in der Geschichte der Sozialtheorie, [published by] Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2008."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: War and peace before sociology: social theorizing on violence from thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic wars; title: The long peace of the nineteenth century and the birth of sociology; title: The classical figures of sociology and the great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century; title: Sociology and social theory from the end of the First World War to the 1970s; title: After modernization theory: historical sociology and the bellicose constitution of Western modernity; title: After the East-West conflict: democratization, state collapse, and empire building; title: Conclusion.