The Civilizing Process
Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
2. Auflage Mai 2000
586 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22161-6
John Wiley & Sons
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 of power within them changed Western society forever.
Preface.
Acknowledgements to the English Translation.
Editors' Note to the Revised Translation.
Volume I: Changes in the Behaviour of The Secular Upper Classes
in the West:.
Part I: On the Sociogenesis of the Concepts of "Civilisation"
and "Culture":.
1. Sociogenesis of the Antithesis Between Kultur and
Zivilization in German Usage.
2. Sociogenesis of the Concept of Civilisation in France.
Part II: Civilization as a Specific Transformation of Human
Behaviour:.
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 Civilizing
Processes:.
Notes.
Index.
Acknowledgements to the English Translation.
Editors' Note to the Revised Translation.
Volume I: Changes in the Behaviour of The Secular Upper Classes
in the West:.
Part I: On the Sociogenesis of the Concepts of "Civilisation"
and "Culture":.
1. Sociogenesis of the Antithesis Between Kultur and
Zivilization in German Usage.
2. Sociogenesis of the Concept of Civilisation in France.
Part II: Civilization as a Specific Transformation of Human
Behaviour:.
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 Civilizing
Processes:.
Notes.
Index.
"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
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
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.