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Article: BEHEMOTH: MAIN CURRENTS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY.(Review) (book reviews)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- November 1, 1999
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BEHEMOTH: MAIN CURRENTS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY. By IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ. Transaction. 474 pp. $29.95 paper.
THE MODERN WORLD'S landscape is marked by two seemingly inexorable and contradictory processes: on the one hand, the emergence of unprecedented state power, claiming competence over ever greater domains of human life; on the other, the rise of a serf-assertive "society" aiming to liberate the individual from traditional moral, social, and political restraints. For three centuries, this tug-of-war between growing state power and societal self-assertion has proceeded apace. It has become the unavoidable subject matter of modern ...
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