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