Norbert Elias - Böcker

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The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization ...

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This classic study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV, has long been out of print. Recognised by historians as the benchmark for studies of early modern courts, which were an important but long neg...

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Nobert Elias (1897-1990) is described as one of the great sociologists of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Elias earned a doctorate in philosophy and then turned to sociology, working with Max Weber's younger brother, Alfred Weber, and with...

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Nobert Elias (1897-1990) is described as one of the great sociologists of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Elias earned a doctorate in philosophy and then turned to sociology, working with Max Weber's younger brother, Alfred Weber, and with...

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What is Sociology? presents in concise and provocative form the major ideas of a seminal thinker whose work-spanning more than four decades-is only now gaining the recognition here it has long had in Germany and France. Unlike other post-war socio...

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The last major work by one of our century's most influential social theorists, The Germans is a penetrating account of German social development, from the seventeenth century to the present. Enhanced by his deep understanding of other Western Euro...

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This book provides a valuable insight into the work and life of Norber Elias - one of the most important social thinkers of the twentieth century. It includes an extended interview with Elias and an autobiographical account which demonstrates the ...

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Now available in paperback, Mozart is a brilliant study of the great composer's life and creative genius, written by one of the most important social thinkers of our time. In Mozart, Elias provides insight into this case of tragic conflict be...

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This is Elias's last great work in which he used his key ideas to analyse the development of the particular features of German personality, social structure and behaviour.

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The Established and the Outsiders is a classic text from one of the major figures of world sociology. This new edition includes a theoretical introduction, published in English for the first time. In Norbert Elias's hands, a local community study ...

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In The Symbol Theory , Norbert Elias draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses that symbols are also tangible sound-patterns o...

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The Established and the Outsiders is a classic text from one of the major figures of world sociology. This new edition includes a theoretical introduction, published in English for the first time. In Norbert Elias's hands, a local community study ...

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Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The Civilizing Process, or was written along with it....

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Originally published in 1985, this is a short meditation by a great old man on people relating to other people who are dying, and the need for all of us to open up.

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Originally published in 1985, this is a short meditation by a great old man on people relating to other people who are dying, and the need for all of us to open up.

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Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The Civilizing Process, or was written along with it. Part...

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Elias effectively founded the modern sociology of sport in collaboration with Eric Dunning in the 1960s and 1970s. They argue that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure...

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The complete edition of 18 volumes of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English. Elias wrote in both English and German, and in all his work runs to 14 books and around 90 other essays, along with poems and numerous interviews. The 18 volume...

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Die Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die langfristigen Transformationen der Gesellschafts- und Persönlichkeitsstukturen weitgehend aus den Augen ver-loren. Im Werk von Norbert Elias sind gerade diese langfristigen Prozesse das zentrale Thema: W...

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Band 6 der Gesammelten Schriften vereinigt kürzere Texte von Elias, die um die Themen Krieg und Tod kreisen: Humana conditio ist eine eindringliche Stellungnahme gegen den Krieg, die Elias anläßlich des 40. Jahrestages des Kriegsendes formuliert h...

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»Es gibt«, so Norbert Elias, »menschliche Erfahrungen und Einsichten, die sich klarer und überzeugender im Kunstwerk, etwa in einem Gedicht, ausdrücken und mitteilen lassen als in einer wissenschaftlichen Abhandlung.« Daß er mit diesem Satz auch a...

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Die Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die langfristigen Transformationen der Gesellschafts- und Persönlichkeitsstrukturen weitgehend aus den Augen verloren. Im Werk von Norbert Elias sind gerade diese langfristigen Prozesse das zentrale Thema: W...

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"Die Soziologie des 20. Jahrhundertshatdie langfristigen Transformationen der Gesellschafts- und Persönlichkeitsstukturen weitgehend aus den Augen verloren. Im Werk von Norbert Elias sind gerade diese langfristigen Prozesse das zentrale Thema...

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"Der Fürstenhof des Ancien regime gibt dem Soziologen nicht weniger Probleme auf als irgendeines der vielen anderen sozialen Gebilde der von Menschen gebildeten Figurationen, die man - etwa wie die feudale Gesellschaft oder die Großstadt - ei...

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»Dieses Buch«, schreibt Norbert Elias in seinem Vorwort, »beschäftigt sich mit dem, worauf sich die Begriffe Individuum Gesellschaft in ihrer gegenwärtigen Form beziehen, also mit bestimmten Aspekten von Menschen.« Seine Grundthese besagt, daß m...

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Es wäre eine schöne Aufgabe, schreibt Norbert Elias, »die Biographie einer Staatsgesellschaft zu schreiben. Denn wie in der Entwicklung eines Einzelmenschen Erfahrungen einer früheren Zeit in der jeweiligen Gegenwart fortwirken, so auch in der Ent...

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In diesem auf Deutsch bislang unverffentlichten Buch untersucht Norbert Elias die Laufbahn von Marineoffizieren im England des 17. Jahrhunderts und legt die Grnde fr die Entstehung dieses neuen Berufes dar. Die Mannschaft der Kriegsschiffe bestand...

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