The Disciplinary Revolution

Philip S. Gorski is a professor of sociology at Yale University.Philip S. Gorski (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1996) is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe. His empirical work focuses on topics such as state-formation, nationalism, revolution, economic development and secularization with particular attention to the interaction of religion and politics. Other current interests include the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences and the nature and role of rationality in social life. Among his recent publications are The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Growth of State Power in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 2003); Max Weber’s Economy and Society: A Critical Companion (Stanford, 2004); and “The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model of Sociological Explanation,” Sociological Methodology, 2004.

出版者:University of Chicago Press

作者:Philip S. Gorski

页数:264

出版时间:2003-7-1

价格:USD 34.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780226304847

图书标签:历史社会学社会学政治学宗教社会理论比较政治历史国家建设

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.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Body and Soul: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe

2. Disciplinary Revolution from below in the Low Countries

3. Disciplinary Revolution from above in Brandenburg-Prussia

4. Social Disciplining in Comparative Perspective

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

用户评价

所有社会科学学生都应该认真读一下这本书，即使不是做比较历史分析的，因为此书是逻辑环环相扣、文笔清晰有力的典范之作。中译本应该快出版了，而且据译者学生反映翻译质量不错。

有时候会觉得社会科学或社会科学式的论点还挺漂亮的。 能在一本篇幅不大的书中回应国家起源这一问题着实不易，尤其此书巧妙地勾连了韦伯与福柯，并且提出国家起源除资产阶级革命、军事革命外的第三重可能，即“纪律”革命或“规训”革命这一在社会文化和国家机制共同起作用的一系列创新与变化。必须承认这一本书着实很有启发性，除韦伯与福柯观点的勾连外，其中比较吸引我的另一点是，（在最广阔的意义上说，）对于在新文化史以及from bottom up的对文化的“深描”之后如何重新宏观地考虑文化与政治之间的关系这一经典命题。这样说可能过于泛泛，这本书目标或许也不是这一任务，不过确实比较吸引我开开脑洞。要说缺点可能还是篇幅还短，不够深不够有说服力，以及对于韦伯福柯的引用有过度诠释并在此基础上建立自己的观点的嫌疑。

重点放在第一章里，论文第二、三章可以用到比较

首吹中文翻译，宗教部分看的脑壳疼还没太懂，整偏逻辑脉络非常清晰，想按照这个模式写篇论文(我在胡说什么)

bring the religion back in explaining state-building;但其实对于引入不同视角所增加的解释效力有点怀疑。文风非常term paper美八股了