Carte Order and Anarchy Robert Layton

Order and Anarchy

Civil Society, Social Disorder and War

Autor: Robert Layton
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social o...

Informații despre carte

Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2006
Pagini
204
EAN
9780521857710
ISBN
0521857716
Enbook ID
02047462
Greutate
395
Dimensiuni
144 x 222 x 17

Descriere completă

Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory, it offers a novel approach to understanding stability and instability in human society. Robert Layton provides a radical critique of current concepts of civil society, arguing that rational action is characteristic of all human societies and not unique to post-Enlightenment Europe. Case studies range from ephemeral African gold rush communities and the night club scene in Britain to stable hunter-gatherer and peasant cultures. The dynamics of recent civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, Chad, Somalia and Indonesia are compared to war in small-scale tribal societies, arguing that recent claims for the evolutionary value of violence have misunderstood the complexity of human strategies and the social environments in which they are played out.

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