Robert Layton

Order and Anarchy (eBook, PDF)

Civil Society, Social Disorder and War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory, it offers a novel approach to understanding stability and instability in human society. Robert Layton provides a radical critique of current concepts of civil society, arguing that rational action is characteristic of all human societies and not unique to post-Enlightenment Europe. Case studies range from ephemeral African gold rush communities and the night club scene in Britain to stable hunter-gatherer and peasant cultures. The dynamics of recent civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, Chad, Somalia and Indonesia are compared to war in small-scale tribal societies, arguing that recent claims for the evolutionary value of violence have misunderstood the complexity of human strategies and the social environments in which they are played out.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511190100
• Artikelnr.: 38209053

Autorenporträt

Daniele Spinetti is a software architect living in Rome. He is an Embarcadero MVP. Delphi/Object Pascal is his favorite tool/programming language, and he is a lead and active member of several projects in the open source community. In his tutoring activities (conferences and training), he likes to talk about innovative topics in software architectures. He's a huge fan of design patterns and TDD.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Civil society and social cohesion
2. Self-interest and social evolution
3. The breakdown of social order
4. Warfare, biology and culture
References
Index.