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ISBN: 9780631221616 - The Civilizing Process The Civilizing Process
Norbert Elias

ISBN10: 0631221611  ISBN13: 9780631221616
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blackwell Publishers
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2000
"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... More

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ISBN: 9780745613833 - Reflections on a Life Reflections on a Life
Norbert Elias

ISBN10: 0745613837  ISBN13: 9780745613833
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Oct 1994
Reflection on a Life includes a detailed interview with Elias in which he discusses different stages in his life and career. This book provides a valuable insight into the work and life of Norber Elias - one of the most important social thinkers... More

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ISBN: 9781904558408 - The Court Society The Court Society
Norbert Elias Stephen Mennell

ISBN10: 1904558402  ISBN13: 9781904558408
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Edition: Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Dec 2005
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. Here Elias shows how courtiers - and finally even the king himself - were entrapped in web of etiquette and... More

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ISBN: 9780745614106 - Mozart Mozart
Norbert Elias Michael Schroter

ISBN10: 0745614108  ISBN13: 9780745614106
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Polity Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Sep 1994
IY06302009 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... More

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ISBN: 9780803984196 - The Symbol Theory The Symbol Theory
Norbert Elias

ISBN10: 0803984197  ISBN13: 9780803984196
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 19 Jul 1991
The Symbol Theory 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 tangible sound-patterns of human communication. More

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ISBN: 9781906359102 - The Symbol Theory The Symbol Theory
Norbert Elias Richard Kilminster

ISBN10: 1906359105  ISBN13: 9781906359102
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Sep 2011
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 to recast the question of the ontological... More

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ISBN: 9780826413727 - The Society of Individuals The Society of Individuals
Norbert Elias

ISBN10: 0826413722  ISBN13: 9780826413727
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Dec 2001
In The Society of Individuals, Norbert Elias (1897-1990) addresses these central questions: What is the relation of the plurality of people to the individual, and the relation of the single person to all of society?By presenting these three... More

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ISBN: 9780231045513 - What is Sociology? What is Sociology?
Norbert Elias

ISBN10: 0231045514  ISBN13: 9780231045513
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Aug 1984
Unlike other post-war sociologists, Norbert Elias has always held the concept of historical development among his central concerns; his dynamic theories of the evolution of modern man have remedied the historical and epistemological shortcomings... More

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ISBN: 9780803979499 - The Established and the Outsiders The Established and the Outsiders
Norbert Elias, John Lloyd Scotson

ISBN10: 0803979495  ISBN13: 9780803979499
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22 Nov 1994
This new edition of this classic text from one of the major figures of world sociology includes an introduction published in English for the first time. In Norbert Elias's hands, a local community study of tense relations between an established... More

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ISBN: 9780826413734 - The Loneliness of Dying The Loneliness of Dying
Norbert Elias

ISBN10: 0826413730  ISBN13: 9780826413734
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22 Nov 2001
This book by Norbert Elias (1897-1990) - who was one of the thinkers associated with the so-called Frankfurt School of social philosophers - addresses the issues of death and dying in a unique and personal way. It is a groundbreaking study... More