The Civilizing Process
In this new edition, the original text is extensively revised, corrected, and updated. The Revised Edition reveals anew and afresh the greatness of Elias' masterpiece.
In this new edition, the original text is extensively revised, corrected, and updated. The Revised Edition reveals anew and afresh the greatness of Elias' masterpiece.
But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias’s reflections on civilization for International Relations.
Elias'sfocus isonone particularlylarge figuration 1 —thecivilizing process isnearlya thousand years old and presentlycovers the globe—buthemakes noclaimsthat preclude the possibility of small, local figurations, and he never ...
In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of ‘the Germans’ is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical ...
"This is volume 2 of Elias's "The Civilizing process". In it, Elias widens his scope to examine the social, economic, and political changes in European society from the time of...
This book presents key conceptualizations of violence as developed by Norbert Elias.
This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought - violence and civilization.