War and Modernity: Studies in the History of Vilolence in the 20th Century

Preface vii

Introduction: Wars and Values 1

Part I The Modernity of War 27

1 The Dream of a Modernity without Violence 29

2 The Modernity of War: Modernization Theory and the Problem of Violence 43

3 Ideologies of War: The First World War as Reflected in the Contemporary Social Sciences 55

Part II After War 83

4 After the War: Democracy and Anti-Communism in Berlin after 1945 85

5 After the Cold War: The Collapse of the German Democratic Republic (with Martin Kohli) 95

6 Sprayed and Betrayed: The Experience of Violence in the Vietnam War and its Consequences 111

Part III War and Violence in Social Theory 123

7 Between Power Politics and Pacifist Utopia: Peace and War in Sociology Theory 125

8 Is There a Militarist Tradition in Sociology? 141

9 Sociology after Auschwitz: Zygmunt Bauman’s Work and the Problems of German Self-Understanding 163

10 War the Risk Society? 180

11 War the Teacher? 180

12 Action Theory and the Dynamics of Violence 187

Notes 197

Bibliography 225

Name Index 242

Subject Index 246