Worlds of Uncertainty: War, Philosophies and Projects for Order

Worlds of Uncertainty

Politics & Social Sciences

Haldén, Peter

Sociology

Cambridge University Press

<p>"Analyses how world views of uncertainty and certainty have alternated and conflicted from the Renaissance to the modern day. The author argues that a pragmatic middle path that accepts unpredictability but deals with it through science and trust will help us successfully manage unpredictable events and deal with crises together"--</p>

Philosophy

Worlds Of Uncertainty

New York, NY : Cambridge university Press

<p>Since the seventeenth century, scholars have argued that kinship as an organizing principle and political order are antithetical. This book shows that this was simply not the case. Kinship, as a principle of legitimacy and in the shape of dynasties, was fundamental to political order. Throughout the last one and a half millennia of European and Middle Eastern history, elite families and polities evolved in symbiosis. By demonstrating this symbiosis as a basis for successful polities, Peter Haldén unravels long-standing theories of the state and of modernity. Most social scientists focus on coercion as a central facet of the state and indeed of power. Instead, Halden argues that much more attention must be given to collaboration, consent and common identity and institutions as elements of political order. He also demonstrates that democracy and individualism are not necessary features of modernity.</p>

Family Power: Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500–2018

History

Asia

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