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Shlapentokh, Dmitry

 
9780230603752: Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe: Memory of the Future

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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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Dmitry Shlapentokh is Associate Professor of History, Indiana University South Bend.

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9781349371754: Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe: Memory of the Future

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ISBN 10:  1349371750 ISBN 13:  9781349371754
Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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