Essays II: On Civilising Processes, State Formation and National Identity: v. 15 (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias) - Hardcover

Elias, Norbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906359024 ISBN 13: 9781906359027

Publisher: University College Dublin Press, 2009

Synopsis

Eleven of the 18 essays by Norbert Elias collected in this volume have not been published previously in English, and several of the remainder were not easily obtained. The themes of this volume represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". The topics include violence and civilisation; the civilising of parents; privacy; conflict and change within communities; public opinion and national character in Britain; the charismatic leadership of Adolf Hitler; and the fear of death.

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NORBERT ELIAS (1897-1990) was one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He studied with Alfred Weber in Heidelberg and served as Karl Mannheim's assistant in Frankfurt. On Hitler's coming to power, he went into exile, first in France and then in Britain. His magnum opus The Civilizing Process received little attention when it was published in Switzerland in 1939 and only after Elias's formal retirement in 1962 were most of his other books and essays published. International intellectual celebrity came to him right at the end of his long life. RICHARD KILMINSTER is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds; STEPHEN MENNELL is Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin.

Edition details

• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906359024
• ISBN 13: 9781906359027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 289