Norbert Elias (Late of Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt

The Civilizing Process

Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Completely overhauled version of the combined classic texts The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization. Revised throughout, updated postscript and bibliography, and line corrections made from the original version. Contents lists combined and restructured. .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 866g
• ISBN-13: 9780631221616
• ISBN-10: 0631221611
• Artikelnr.: 14843313

Autorenporträt

Norbert Elias (1897-1990) taught at the University of Frankfurt until his exile from Hitler's Germany. In Britain, he worked at the Universities of London and Leicester, and in retirement was visiting professor in Ghana, Amsterdam, Munster, Bielefeld and many other universities. By the time of his death he was recognized as one of the outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century. His previous Blackwell books include: The Norbert Elias Reader, The Court Society, The Loneliness of the Dying, Involvement and Detachment, Time: An Essay, The Society of Individuals and, with Eric Dunning, Quest for Excitement.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Acknowledgements to the English Translation.

Editors' Note to the Revised Translation.

Volume I: Changes in the Behaviour of The Secular Upper Classesin the West:.

Part I: On the Sociogenesis of the Concepts of "Civilisation"and "Culture":.

1. Sociogenesis of the Antithesis Between Kultur andZivilization in German Usage.

2. Sociogenesis of the Concept of Civilisation in France.

Part II: Civilization as a Specific Transformation of HumanBehaviour:.

Volume II: State Formation and Civilization:.

Part III: Feudalization and State Formation:.

1. Dynamics of Feudalization.

2. On the Sociogenesis of the State.

Part IV: Synopsis: Towards a Theory of CivilizingProcesses:.

Notes.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Without doubt the most important piece of historical sociology since Max Weber." Richard Sennett, London School of Economics .

"A modern classic of the first order." Lewis Coser .

"Elias has all the boldness and sureness of touch of the old masters, of whom he is perhaps the last. Reading his pages one again and again makes the mental note that this or that point is worthy of a Max Weber ... One realises from a book like this that serious sociology must remain dependent on the insightful interpretation of history of just the kind that Elias provides." Bryan Wilson .

"The most remarkable recent attempt to contain the social and the individual within a unified scheme of sociological analysis." Philip Abrams

"The Civilizing Process is remarkable: eclectic, insightful and constantly surprising." Times Higher Education Supplement