Elias Collected Works

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 of Civilisation,...

Norbert Elias
06 Jun 2012 · Hardback

A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the...

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 Western Europe...

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 is linked...

Norbert Elias
01 Dec 2010 · Hardback

Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth...

Norbert Elias
01 May 2010 · Hardback

Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more...

Norbert Elias
01 Apr 2010 · Hardback

Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying...

Norbert Elias
01 Sep 2009 · Hardback

Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a...

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. This book...

Norbert Elias
24 Nov 2008 · Hardback

Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title...

Norbert Elias
20 Sep 2008 · Hardback

Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities...

Norbert Elias
20 Sep 2008 · Hardback

Explains differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a local community...

Norbert Elias
23 Feb 2007 · Hardback

Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call...

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 aspect of...

Norbert Elias
19 Feb 2007 · Hardback

The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of society on...

Norbert Elias
02 Dec 2005 · Hardback

A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV....

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 number of...

Stephen Mennell
11 Sep 1998 · Paperback

Gives an introduction to Norbert Elias' work that is not part of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias"....