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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the "Jewish Revolution," Émile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions derived from Christian theology. In the United States, William Thomas, Robert Park, and their students conceived the modern city and its new modes of social organization in part by reference to the Jewish immigrants concentrating there. In all three countries, social thinkers invoked real or purported differences between Jews and gentiles to elucidate key dualisms of modern social thought. The Jews thus became an intermediary through which social thinkers discerned in a roundabout fashion the nature, problems, and trajectory of their own wider societies. Goldberg rounds out his fascinating study by proposing a novel explanation for why Jews were such an important cultural reference point. He suggests a rethinking of previous scholarship on Orientalism, Occidentalism, and European perceptions of America, arguing that history extends into the present, with the Jews-and now the Jewish state-continuing to serve as an intermediary for self-reflection in the twenty-first century.

Jews --- Jews --- Jews --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Georg Simmel. --- Jews. --- Karl Marx. --- Max Weber. --- Robert Park. --- Werner Sombart. --- William Thomas. --- modernity. --- Émile Durkheim.

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This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of thinking about war over more than 350 years--from the premodern era to the period of German idealism and the Scottish and French enlightenments, and then from the birth of sociology in the nineteenth century through the twentieth century. While focusing on social thought, the book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. Joas and Knöbl demonstrate the profound difficulties most social thinkers--including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the first sociologists--had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war, the most obvious form of large-scale social violence. With only a few exceptions, these thinkers, who believed deeply in social progress, were unable to account for war because they regarded it as marginal or archaic, and on the verge of disappearing. This overly optimistic picture of the modern world persisted in social theory even in the twentieth century, as most sociologists and social theorists either ignored war and violence in their theoretical work or tried to explain it away. The failure of the social sciences and especially sociology to understand war, Joas and Knöbl argue, must be seen as one of the greatest weaknesses of disciplines that claim to give a convincing diagnosis of our times.

Sociology --- War and society. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Society and war --- War --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- History --- Social aspects --- American sociology. --- Auguste Comte. --- Carl Schmitt. --- Carl von Clausewitz. --- First World War. --- Germany. --- Hans Speier. --- Herbert Spencer. --- Immanuel Kant. --- James Mill. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Jeremy Bentham. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Marxism. --- Michael Doyle. --- Michel Foucault. --- Montesquieu. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Otto Hintze. --- Roger Caillois. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- United States. --- Werner Sombart. --- capitalism. --- democracy. --- democratic peace. --- democratization. --- empire building. --- failed states. --- free trade. --- historical sociology. --- intellectuals. --- international relations. --- liberalism. --- marketization. --- militarism. --- military sociology. --- modernity. --- modernization theory. --- new wars. --- peace. --- political migrs. --- progressive optimism. --- social change. --- social progress. --- social theory. --- social thought. --- sociology. --- state decline. --- total war. --- violence. --- virtue. --- war.

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For years one of Germany's foremost cultural organizations, the Werkbund included in its membership such pioneers of the modern movement as Henry van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. Joan Campbell traces its history from its founding in 1907 to 1934, when it was absorbed into the bureaucracy of the National Socialist State.The Werkbund set out to prove that organized effort could revitalize the applied arts and architecture. In addition to acting as an agent of reform, it provided a forum for the debate of such broad concerns as the need to restore joy and dignity to work in modem industry.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Decorative arts --- Deutscher Werkbund. --- D.W.B. --- DWB --- Werkbund Estates --- ADAPT. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Adolf Loos. --- Adolf Ziegler. --- Adolf. --- Advanced capitalism. --- Aestheticism. --- Albert Speer. --- Anti-communism. --- Antimilitarism. --- Applied arts. --- Art Nouveau. --- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. --- Arts and Crafts movement. --- August Endell. --- Baedeker. --- Baghdad Railway. --- Bauhaus. --- Bruno Taut. --- Cultural Bolshevism. --- Cultural hegemony. --- Cultural policy. --- Culture and Society. --- Dada. --- Demagogue. --- Designer. --- Deutsches Museum. --- Enabling act. --- Erich Mendelsohn. --- Ernst May. --- Folk art. --- Friedrich Meinecke. --- Friedrich Naumann. --- Fritz Schumacher (architect). --- Fritz Todt. --- German art. --- Gleichschaltung. --- Great Leap Forward. --- Gropius. --- Handicraft. --- Hans Poelzig. --- Heimatschutz. --- Henry van de Velde. --- Hermann Muthesius. --- Imperialism. --- Individualism. --- Inside the Third Reich. --- Kampfbund. --- Konrad Adenauer. --- Kritik. --- Käthe Kollwitz. --- Ludwig Gies. --- Manifesto. --- Mass production. --- Max Scheler. --- Meistersinger. --- Mitteleuropa. --- Mittelstand. --- Modern architecture. --- Modern art. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Naumann. --- Nazi Party. --- Nazi propaganda. --- Nazism. --- New Objectivity. --- Of Education. --- Otto Dix. --- Patriotism. --- Paul Bonatz. --- Paul Renner. --- Paul Schultze-Naumburg. --- Paul Troost. --- Peter Behrens. --- Posener. --- Pressa. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Reactionary. --- Reichskulturkammer. --- Richard Riemerschmid. --- Robert Ley. --- Romanticism. --- Sigfried Giedion. --- Socialist state. --- Speer. --- Superiority (short story). --- Theodor Fischer (architect). --- Theodor Heuss. --- Totalitarianism. --- Volksgemeinschaft. --- Walter Gropius. --- Walther Rathenau. --- Weimar Republic. --- Werkbund Exhibition (1914). --- Werner Sombart. --- Wilhelm Frick. --- Wilhelm Kreis. --- Wilhelm Wagenfeld.