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Between Anarch and Behemoth: the spirit of Montesquieu -- Secularizing society: Helvétius, Rousseau, and Comte -- Romancing the organic state: Hegel -- The liberal compromise with state power: Alexis de Tocqueville -- Utopianism as scientific sociology: Marx -- Social order without state power: Durkheim -- State power without social order: Sorel -- Legitimizing the bureaucratic state: Weber I -- Defining the boundaries of law and order: Weber II -- The unhappy alliance of democracy and dictatorship: Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Neumann -- Modern capitalism as a social phenomenon: Schumpeter -- State, military, business,: the trinity of power: Mills -- Totalitarian visions of the good society: Arendt -- Beyond the state: civilization and community: Etzioni and Huntington -- Between politics and economics: Welfare state vs. global economy. |
