Irving Horowitz

Behemoth

Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The title, Behemoth, derives from the Hebrew word Behemah-a beast, an enormous creature, monstrously huge and vast

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9781560004103
• ISBN-10: 156000410X
• Artikelnr.: 26190582

Autorenporträt

Irving Horowitz

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Between Anarch and Behemoth:
The Spirit of Montesquieu
2. Secularizing Society:
Helvetius, Rousseau, and Comte
3. Romancing the Organic State:
Hegel
4. The Liberal Compromise with State Power:
Alexis de Tocqueville
5. Utopianism as Scientific Sociology:
Marx
6. Social Order without State Power:
Durkheim
7. State Power without Social Order:
Sorel
8. Legitimizing the Bureaucratic State:
Weber I
9. Defining the Boundaries of Law and Order:
Weber II
10. The Unhappy Alliance of
Democracy and Dictatorship:
Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Neumann
11. Modern Capitalism as a Social Phenomenon:
Schumpeter
12. State, Military, Business: The Trinity of Power:
Mills
13. Totalitarian Visions of the Good Society:
Arendt
14. Beyond the State: Civilization and Community:
Etzioni and Huntington
15. Between Politics and Economics:
Welfare State vs. Global Economy
Index