内容简介

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

作品目录

作者简介

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.

精彩摘录

过去的20年中，国家创建领域的社会学分析主要由两种理路所主导：侧重于物质因素的新马克思主义和强调地政治的战争中心论。在新马克思主义关于近代早期国家的文献中，最具影响力的两部著作当属佩里安德森的《绝对主义国家的系谱》(LineagesoftheAbsolutistState)和伊曼组尔・沃勒斯坦的《现代世界体系》(TheModernWorldSystem)。在西欧，绝对主义仅仅阻止了贵族阶级社会权力的下滑；而在东欧,绝对主义实际上借“第二次农奴制”(secondserfdom)提升了贵族阶级的社会地位。因此，尽管将国际军事竞争视为中介因素，安德森对近代早期国家创建的解释主要还是着眼于社会经济方面。例如，他坚持认为，国家结构取決于生产模式及其所引发的阶级关系类型。

——引自章节：第一章：灵与肉：近代早期欧洲的加尔文主义、规训与国家权力