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Richard Kilminster
In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias's preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its…
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This enlightening book is the first book to explain the refractory, uncomfortable, side of Elias’s sociological radicalism and is also the first in-depth analysis of Elias’s last work The Symbol…
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This sociological critique of the philosophy of praxis looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Lukacs, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer…
By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround ‘social theory’, The Sociological Revolution provides an historical analysis of the ‘profound burden’ of sociology and its implications today.
This sociological critique of the ‘philosophy of praxis’ looks at the importance of the concept in the social theory of leading influential Western Marxists such as Lukacs, Gramsci, Korsch, Horkheimer…
Offering a historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today, Richard Kilminster provides detailed studies of a number of contemporary theories, ranging from historical materialism, phenomenology…
In ‘Culture, Modernity and Revolution’ a group of sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. In doing so they also make a commentary on East…
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In Culture, Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. In doing so they also make a remarkable commentary…
Norbert Elias
Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked through communication and orientation to group survival. This title proceeds…
Includes essay ‘On Seeing in Nature’, a response to Karl Mannheim’s famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories contributed to a newspaper. This title includes as…
Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a wide range of topics. This volume develops his sociological theory…
Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in The Civilizing Process . This title includes topics such as: violence and civilisation; the civilising…
Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias’ dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. This book shows how wide ranging were Elias’ own sociological interests. It…
Beginning with the author’s celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, this title demonstrates how psychological changes…
In the last decade of his life, Elias gave many interviews in which he discussed aspects of his work, rebutting many common misunderstandings of his thinking and further developing ideas…
Richard Kilminster (University of Leeds UK),Ian Varcoe (University of Leeds UK),Catherine Anne Morgan (University of Durham UK)
