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Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe - Memory of the Future (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,403
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Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe - Memory of the Future (Hardcover): D. Shlapentokh

Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe - Memory of the Future (Hardcover)

D. Shlapentokh

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This book compares the social decomposition in late medieval Europe to the societal failure witnessed today in the modern West, arguing that in the case of emergencies, a strong despotic state is the only way to maintain basic order. Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior (criminality, promiscuity, and anti-sanitary actions, as well as other aspects of social, political, and communal breakdown) in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal occurrence but rather a mainstream phenomena, and one that can often be stopped by strong force as the only antidote to social chaos. While the majority of Western (and particularly Anglo-American) scholarship dictates that Jeffersonian democracy will spread over the world, Shlapentokh argues that instead it is the precepts of Hobbes and Carl Schmitt that will shape the world to come.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2008
First published: 2008
Authors: D. Shlapentokh
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60375-2
Categories: Books > Children's & Educational > Social studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal, health & social education (PHSE) > Citizenship
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
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LSN: 0-230-60375-0
Barcode: 9780230603752

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