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Norbert Elias (1897–1990) is recognised as one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. His works (some originally written in English and some in German) extend the theory of civilising processes in major contributions to the historical understanding of the growth of knowledge and the sciences, of sport and leisure, of art and literature, and of the interweaving of biological evolution with psychological and social developments over the whole span of human society.

UCD Press, on behalf of the Norbert Elias Foundation, Amsterdam, is publishing the works of Elias in new scholarly editions, including much material not previously published in English.

• Studies on the Germans

  
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  Norbert Elias
  01 Jul 2013 · Hardback
  First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author's most famous work, On the Process ...

• What is Sociology?

  
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  Norbert Elias
  06 Jun 2012 · Hardback
  A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different ...

• On the Process of Civilisation

  
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  Norbert Elias
  31 May 2012 · Hardback
  Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in ...

• The Symbol Theory

  
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  Norbert Elias
  05 Sep 2011 · Hardback
  Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it ...

• Mozart and Other Essays on Courtly Art

  
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  Norbert Elias
  01 May 2010 · Hardback
  Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was ...

• The Loneliness of the Dying AND Humana Conditio

  
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  Norbert Elias
  01 Apr 2010 · Hardback
  Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death ...

• Essays III

  
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  Norbert Elias
  25 Apr 2009 · Hardback
  Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias' dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. ...

• Quest for Excitement

  
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  Norbert Elias
  20 Sep 2008 · Hardback
  Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and ...

• The Established and the Outsiders

  
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  Norbert Elias
  20 Sep 2008 · Hardback
  Explains differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a ...

• Involvement and Detachment

  
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  Norbert Elias
  23 Feb 2007 · Hardback
  Presents an exposition of the author's sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an ...

• The Genesis of the Naval Profession

  
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  Norbert Elias
  19 Feb 2007 · Hardback
  The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of ...

• The Court Society

  
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  Norbert Elias
  02 Dec 2005 · Hardback
  A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV. ...

• Early Writings

  
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  Norbert Elias
  28 Nov 2005 · Hardback
  Includes essay 'On Seeing in Nature', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a ...