War and Modernity
Written by one of Europe's leading social theorists, this book takes up the claims of modernity and confronts them with a stark reality: the ongoing proliferation of war. How can contemporary social and political thought come to terms with this apparent failure of modernity? Throughout the 20th century the global struggle of ideologies put paid to the dream that wars were somehow the relic of a bygone, unenlightened age. But now in the aftermath of the Cold War era, how are we to account for the persistence of war and state violence?Drawing on a wide range of material, from World War I and Vietnam to the Gulf War and the conflicts in the Balk…
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Weitere Autoren: Livingstone, Rodney (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-2645-1
- EAN: 9780745626451
- Produktnummer: 8407853
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B16.9 cm x D1.9 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
Über den Autor
Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
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