The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe - Couverture souple

Gorski, Philip S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226304841 ISBN 13 : 9780226304847

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2003

Synopsis

What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philip S. Gorski is an associate professor of sociology and director of the Max and Marianne Weber Center for Comparative Social Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is coauthor of The German Left: Red, Green, and Beyond.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226304841
• ISBN 13: 9780226304847
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 266
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