23rd February 2007 · Hardback
Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call 'time' is...
18th November 2013 · Hardback
Vol. 17 of the Collected Works can serve as an excellent introduction to Elias's thinking overall. In the last decade of his life,...
28th November 2005 · Hardback
Includes essay 'On Seeing in Nature', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories...
8th December 2010 · Hardback
Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth of the...
2nd December 2005 · Hardback
A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV....