ISBN:
9781137312112
,
1137312114
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (336 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Elias, Norbert 1897-1990
;
Sociology History
;
Social sciences Philosophy
Abstract:
Introduction-- Francois Depelteau and Tatiana Savoia Landini PART I: UNDERSTANDING ELIAS 1. Why Read, Analyze and Use Elias Today?-- Francois Depelteau 2. The Sociology of Norbert Elias-- Tatiana Savoia Landini 3. What Norbert Elias Said-- Eric Dunning 4. Five Misunderstandings of Elias' Thought-- Nathalie Heinich PART II: ELIAS AND CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY 1. The Epicurean in Elias-- Barbara Evers 2. Elias, Freud and the Human Sciences-- Bernard Lahire 3. Contradiction and Interdependency: the Sociologies of Karl Marx and Norbert Elias-- Chris Powell 4. Past and Present in Sociological Theory: Similarities and Differences between Emile Durkheim and Norbert Elias-- Enio Passiani 5. Elias and Durkheim-- H. Vera 6. Elias and M. Weber-- Florence Delmott 7. From Elias back to Simmel-- Leopoldo Waizbort PART III: ELIAS AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY 1. Elias and G. Dux-- V. Weiler, 2. Elias and Manheim-- Richard Kilminster 3. Under the Shadow of the Authoritarian Personality: Elias, Fromm, and Alternative Social Psychologies of Authoritarianism-- T. Berard 4. Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology and Science-- P. Walsh 5. Elias and P. Bourdieu-- Francois Depelteau 6. Individualization and Social Dis/integration in "postmodernity": A Comparative Note on Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias-- R. Powell and J. Flint
Abstract:
This book will compare the approach and works of Norbert Elias, well known for his analysis of the civilizing process, his work on sport and violence and, more largely, his figurational approach, with other important social theories both classical and contemporary, Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the twentieth century. The contributions collected in Norbert Elias and Social Theory discuss the specificities, the strengths, and the limits of Elias's sociology by considering its similarities and its differences with other important classical (Epicure, Freud, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel) and contemporary (Manheim, Fromm, Arendt, Bauman, and Bourdieu) social theories. Editors Francois Depelteau and Tatiana Savoia Landini have compiled an essential and comprehensive volume on a quintessential thinker
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Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9781137312105, 2013
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